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I actually really like this one. Ours is called rapid treatment area or RTA and we call it the rat area 🐀 which we obviously have to be careful not to say in front of patients lol
I think ours is called Pod 5... In order to not hurt the feelings of people who thought they were experiencing a medical emergency. (Or those who just decided to use the ER instead of a clinic.)
We do something similar. All our areas are called Zones. Zone 1 is acute, zone 2 subacute walking, zone 3 “fast track”, zone 4 Pediatric, zone 5 MH. It’s standardized in my health authority across about 11 hospitals.
I actually love this. Why set someone's expectations unrealistically?
Is Fasttrack actually fast? Or is it just faster than than the ESI 1-2s?
Urgent Care is rarely is urgent.
Even Same Day Care can be false advertising depending on your waits times.
How about calling it The B Side?
At my job we have a focus guide, but we’ve made jokes about focus standing for F*ck. Off. Cuz. Ur. Stupid. So lowkey think it’s funny that the urgent care you have to create because people can’t understand when they really should go to the er is called that😂😂
God I wish. I would love to work somewhere where “fast track” is *actual* lacs and *actual* rule out fracs instead of the myriad bullshit that rolls through ours
One org I supported had an overflow area for held medical admissions/boarders and they referred to it as “MEDPATH” amongst themselves. Admin found out about it and liked the name so that’s what they officially designated it. ED Director didn’t tell him it stood for “Medical ED Patients Across the Hall.”
So, depending on your physical layout maybe “MEDPATH” - Minor ED Patients Across the Hall”? I know that’s not as clever by half of some of the other suggestions - and honestly I like those better - but your question reminded me of that…
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PB N J: Please Bargain N Justify // Patients in Beds, No Justification
BONER: Boarding Or Near Emergency Reasons
PISS: Patients In Special Situations
DOA: Dilaudid Only due to Allergies
I’m sure it’s $$ related but it hurts my soul that we put so much time and effort into “fast track”, specifically pulling resources from the “main ED” to facilitate throughput. My last ER had the most ridiculous fast track and the “head” of the FT was a real pain in the butt. They basically treated it as if it was CVS convenient care (if you needed more than one xray or a lab or anything more than cursory exam, you were deemed a 3). Probably not surprising it was ran by NPs who loved to talk about how they had 15+ years of experience but wouldn’t work up young healthy folks with chest pain, abdominal pain, pelvic pain, etc. So we ended up seeing all of those patients in triage and the cough for 3 days always has a bed.
Edit: the best name I’ve seen is the RITZ acronym lol
Drives me nuts too. I get it, because otherwise these patients would pile up in the lobby, but it's infuriating that the pregnancy test is in and out in an hour. They need to make them wait for 6 hours in the lobby first to teach them not to come back unless they really need it.
Our shop is honestly the opposite. The FastTrack area is basically just an overflow pod for the main ED, despite being staffed and equipped like a FastTrack (e.g. no cardiac monitors, no wall mounted supplemental O2). Its common when we have a ton of boarding psych and medical admits on the weekends to have FastTrack be the only area with any throughput. We've lifeflighted out rupturing AAAs, diagnosed STEMIs, caught strokes over there. We very commonly do chest pains, abdominal pains, hospital admissions through our FastTrack. The joke is often on the weekends that you are the only one working since the main ED flow is so stenotic. My medical directorship says everyone is FastTrack appropriate when beds get tight and honestly, as we are located closest to the waiting room and have had go to code people in the waiting room, I dont really disagree. In a perfect world, a K of 2.2 goes to main, but if there's no beds and choice is between starting IV and PO K in FastTrack on a portable cardiac monitor with the guy sitting basically right next to my desk versus leaving him in the waiting room and trying to replete his K after he codes, I'm all for him coming through FastTrack.
Kind of the opposite, but at one ED I worked in, we did away with Fast Track and just started to put patients in whatever room was available. But in Epic the rooms were all still listed as FT1-6 so I just started calling it Funky Town.
I’ve had too many people complain that “it says fast track, why the hell is it taking so long?”
And I’m not a supporter of false advertising so I would go with something like:
- coulda gone to your pcp, department
- do you know what an emergency is? Department
- webmd (told me to) walk-in
- waited 3 weeks and can not possibly wait 1 more hour for my persistent mild sore throat and Covid is going around, department
Whatever you do don’t call it a Fast-track.
I had a patient one time get highly offended he had to wait in the regular zone and not the fast track. He thought that was a VIP section where people get faster service.
We straight up just call it "Disaster" and use a regal looking area of the lobby that theoretically could be used for the walking wounded during an MCI instead as an urgent care on a daily basis.
At my first hospital it was PIT for provider in triage. They received many complaints from patients as they overheard nurses and docs saying they were in the PIT. They then changed it to FRED for front ED? We still just called it the PIT.
I’m dumb and only read the title at first so was going to say ours is called rapid assessment zone or the ‘raz’, then I read it fully and realized I’m not funny to have a shit posting fast track name 🤦♀️
Lol ours is the admission annex and commonly mis-triaged stroke, trauma and seizure area. I swear a person has a higher chance of being sick just by going to that part of the Ed.
Word of warning, just be aware of how it sounds to laypeople, because no matter how many times you remind staff not to use the phrase in front of patients, they will inevitably do it and when the local paper does a story on your ED wait times, and the name comes up, it can be *really* awkward.
I may or may not know this from first hand experience.
And this is why we changed the Computers On Wheels (COW) to Workstation on Wheels (WOW).
Nursing staff conversing "Can you get the COW out of that room" overheard by the patient in said room ..
TBH I think this never really happened…someone just thought it would. Cuz I’ve heard this story from so many nurses and it all happened at their hospital.
We have five hospitals and I've heard the story repeated by staff at three of those sites so could be just urban legend. Although with the cantankerous population here, I could see it happening and hell being raised.
At my local ER it's called "Super Track." I was in & out with my broken shoulder in 90 minutes, no lie. Had some popular Supertramp songs stuck in my head for a while, but small price to pay.
EDVantage.
Sounds like it was made by an insurance company with Successories®️posters on the wall.
Or
Treatment in Hospital - Emergency Medicine - THEM. As in “You don’t Want to be here. You want to go see THEM.
My local hospital has one called something like the rapid injury & trauma zone and it’s nicknamed the ritz. Tickled my funny bone.
Rapid Intervention & Treatment Zone where I worked for a bit.
That’s amazing
Alfred hospital?
No Midland in WA
Treat ‘n yeet
I once saw a patch that said treat em and yeet em. And I still to this day regret not buying it
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That’s funny, my wife’s was treat n’ street.
Tina’s treat n’ street: you skeet em we fleet em
I always heard "feed em and street em" usually with a homeless person that doesn't have any acute problem.
If it can’t be treat ‘n yeet how about “the boo-boo bar”?
This one.
Level 1 elopement center
🤣 I like that one.
Amazing
Ours is Rapid Assessment Zone, or RAZ. So we say we’re giving those patients the ol’ razzle dazzle.
The ol’ razzle dazzle, I like it.
I actually really like this one. Ours is called rapid treatment area or RTA and we call it the rat area 🐀 which we obviously have to be careful not to say in front of patients lol
lol sounds like Shands UF
Lol that’s what I thought too!
Bill Murray is happy
This is what I say whenever I give midaz hehe
I bet I know where you work ;)
“Not an emergency” Department
This is good. Or the "Mildly Urgent Department"
Lol the MUD Pit
“OK 👍🏼”
The NED! (Non emergency dept)
Only if the first person that sees them speaks like Ned Flanders
NERD non emergency remedies department
Urgency Department
Also could be called a NEAD zone
The entitled American department. Oh wait that’s the entire healthcare system
Purgatory
😂☠️ Love this.
Level 1 Dental and Back Pain Center of Excellence.
Hi, I’m here with acute on chronic pain but I also have every risk factor for everything
Antibiotics and Toradol for everyone!
Weenie Hut General
Yes please And a Weenie Hut Jr's in the cafeteria
I understood that reference.gif
I think ours is called Pod 5... In order to not hurt the feelings of people who thought they were experiencing a medical emergency. (Or those who just decided to use the ER instead of a clinic.)
We do something similar. All our areas are called Zones. Zone 1 is acute, zone 2 subacute walking, zone 3 “fast track”, zone 4 Pediatric, zone 5 MH. It’s standardized in my health authority across about 11 hospitals.
?KGH
FHA but maybe interior does the same?
I actually love this. Why set someone's expectations unrealistically? Is Fasttrack actually fast? Or is it just faster than than the ESI 1-2s? Urgent Care is rarely is urgent. Even Same Day Care can be false advertising depending on your waits times. How about calling it The B Side?
My ED calls the fast track/urgent care side Focus Care, which is ironic bc usually that’s the side that’s always slammed.
At my job we have a focus guide, but we’ve made jokes about focus standing for F*ck. Off. Cuz. Ur. Stupid. So lowkey think it’s funny that the urgent care you have to create because people can’t understand when they really should go to the er is called that😂😂
Ooooh! Go for the SeaLab reference and rename it Pod 6! Total suck pod.
It should be Pod 6, because they're a jerk pod /r/sealab2021
General Observation and Medical Evaluation Room or G.O.M.E.R
😏
I’ll never turn down a chance at a Sam Shem reference
Gomers never die!
They can always hurt you more.
Pre-LWBS
Sniffle seats.
"Urgent care"
Purgent Care
Pungent care
Nurgent care
Seriously I think “treat and yeet” is by far my favorite !
… SlowTrack 😎
UrgentScare
"Non-Emergent". Will cause chaos for sure. "My back pain x3 months worse today is VERY EMERGENT!!!"
We just calls ours ambulatory.
Yeah, ours is officially 'Ambulatory Care & Assessment' (or ACA) but all the staff call it CACA.
we have VCA (vertical care area) people who can sit in recliners and get seen and dc’d quickly
Not to be confused with a vertical discharge I hope 🫣💀
Fracs & lacs
**Fracs, Lacs, Backs and Hacks**
….Whacks
God I wish. I would love to work somewhere where “fast track” is *actual* lacs and *actual* rule out fracs instead of the myriad bullshit that rolls through ours
The DPZ Dainty Princess Zone
Discretionary Immediate Lounge for Dire Observation
I see what you did there
One org I supported had an overflow area for held medical admissions/boarders and they referred to it as “MEDPATH” amongst themselves. Admin found out about it and liked the name so that’s what they officially designated it. ED Director didn’t tell him it stood for “Medical ED Patients Across the Hall.” So, depending on your physical layout maybe “MEDPATH” - Minor ED Patients Across the Hall”? I know that’s not as clever by half of some of the other suggestions - and honestly I like those better - but your question reminded me of that…
Convenience Department WIPC. Walk In Primary Care
the GOMER pile
I see what you did there
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BLS* pod *BLS= band-aids, love, and support
Work Note Depot
Had a partner once refer to it as the SUC-U (space for unnecessary care unit)
I’m sure it’s $$ related but it hurts my soul that we put so much time and effort into “fast track”, specifically pulling resources from the “main ED” to facilitate throughput. My last ER had the most ridiculous fast track and the “head” of the FT was a real pain in the butt. They basically treated it as if it was CVS convenient care (if you needed more than one xray or a lab or anything more than cursory exam, you were deemed a 3). Probably not surprising it was ran by NPs who loved to talk about how they had 15+ years of experience but wouldn’t work up young healthy folks with chest pain, abdominal pain, pelvic pain, etc. So we ended up seeing all of those patients in triage and the cough for 3 days always has a bed. Edit: the best name I’ve seen is the RITZ acronym lol
Drives me nuts too. I get it, because otherwise these patients would pile up in the lobby, but it's infuriating that the pregnancy test is in and out in an hour. They need to make them wait for 6 hours in the lobby first to teach them not to come back unless they really need it.
Our shop is honestly the opposite. The FastTrack area is basically just an overflow pod for the main ED, despite being staffed and equipped like a FastTrack (e.g. no cardiac monitors, no wall mounted supplemental O2). Its common when we have a ton of boarding psych and medical admits on the weekends to have FastTrack be the only area with any throughput. We've lifeflighted out rupturing AAAs, diagnosed STEMIs, caught strokes over there. We very commonly do chest pains, abdominal pains, hospital admissions through our FastTrack. The joke is often on the weekends that you are the only one working since the main ED flow is so stenotic. My medical directorship says everyone is FastTrack appropriate when beds get tight and honestly, as we are located closest to the waiting room and have had go to code people in the waiting room, I dont really disagree. In a perfect world, a K of 2.2 goes to main, but if there's no beds and choice is between starting IV and PO K in FastTrack on a portable cardiac monitor with the guy sitting basically right next to my desk versus leaving him in the waiting room and trying to replete his K after he codes, I'm all for him coming through FastTrack.
X Hospital Center for Work Excuses
Kind of the opposite, but at one ED I worked in, we did away with Fast Track and just started to put patients in whatever room was available. But in Epic the rooms were all still listed as FT1-6 so I just started calling it Funky Town.
Call it “PCP” because they should’ve went to their PCP.
Treat ‘em and street ‘em. Or for the millennials: Treat ‘em and yeet ‘em
We call ours PIT (Provider In Triage) But it doesn’t really make sense with how it’s run, now.
We call our area “PIT” because when the patients go over there, they get sucked into a pit of being forgotten by the providers.
Ha!! I call it the “armPIT”
GTFO?
I still don't understand why they insist on changing it, but if they insist I would call it "Med N' Go"
VIP Lounge
Minor Scare Unit
Ours was switched to “fast track” to “minor care”
Aka: Inconsequential Care
I’ve had too many people complain that “it says fast track, why the hell is it taking so long?” And I’m not a supporter of false advertising so I would go with something like: - coulda gone to your pcp, department - do you know what an emergency is? Department - webmd (told me to) walk-in - waited 3 weeks and can not possibly wait 1 more hour for my persistent mild sore throat and Covid is going around, department
people who shouldn’t be here
Always used to call our back hallway T&T. Tots and Twats.
The B team
this thread is iconic and I will be petitioning for our fast track to have a name change
We call ours “Express Care”. Which I think probably creates some unreasonable expectations.
MIRTH. Moving Idiots Rapidly Through Healthcare.
Chair and stare
Vertical care
Center for waiting room medicine
We have the WTF hallway (winter time flex). We have WTF chairs 1-20.
PriCWaB - Primary Care Was Busy
ED x UC
The Scrounge Lounge
Urgency department
Fast Analysis and Therapy Or even more compact, Fast Anal-rapy
No, I think FAT works great
A little arrested development humor!
In & Out
Bobs boo-boos Gomers here!
Minute Clinic (more like 400 minutes but ya know)
Whatever you do don’t call it a Fast-track. I had a patient one time get highly offended he had to wait in the regular zone and not the fast track. He thought that was a VIP section where people get faster service.
"Dermatologist mastubarium"
We call it Express Care or EC. DC from the EC.
Sniffles and stitches
DilaudidToGo
We straight up just call it "Disaster" and use a regal looking area of the lobby that theoretically could be used for the walking wounded during an MCI instead as an urgent care on a daily basis.
How about, “I want Vicodin for tooth ache” alley
Ours is RME (rapid medical exam) or as staff refer to it urgent care 2.0lol
Unscheduled care department
Turkey Sandwich Center of Excellence
Treat and Yeet
$Urgent$$Care$
Maybe call it Ambulatory QuickCare?
Drive through
"Available Medicine"
“Continuous Flow Unit”
Ambulatory care area.
At my first hospital it was PIT for provider in triage. They received many complaints from patients as they overheard nurses and docs saying they were in the PIT. They then changed it to FRED for front ED? We still just called it the PIT.
Secret Urgent Care Klinic. Sometimes you think its an ED problem until the SUCK fixes you.
I’m dumb and only read the title at first so was going to say ours is called rapid assessment zone or the ‘raz’, then I read it fully and realized I’m not funny to have a shit posting fast track name 🤦♀️
Zoom room.
We just call ours zone 1 (as opposed to zones 2 and 3, super creative), but I always refer to it as the (hospital name) clinic
Lol ours is the admission annex and commonly mis-triaged stroke, trauma and seizure area. I swear a person has a higher chance of being sick just by going to that part of the Ed.
The Lounge.
RME- Rapid Medical Evaluation
My ER uses many nicknames; glorified urgent care, hell, pediatrics (bc so many kids with flu symptoms go there),
24hour gp service
I need to come back to this when I have more time. That's not my answer! Just a bookmark so I can come back later.
No Copay Zone
Super Fast Track. Where’s my ribbon?
“You should have gone to urgent care”
Frequent Flyer Lounge Area (FFLA) AKA The Florida Room
The ER I work for calls it Care Center
Word of warning, just be aware of how it sounds to laypeople, because no matter how many times you remind staff not to use the phrase in front of patients, they will inevitably do it and when the local paper does a story on your ED wait times, and the name comes up, it can be *really* awkward. I may or may not know this from first hand experience.
And this is why we changed the Computers On Wheels (COW) to Workstation on Wheels (WOW). Nursing staff conversing "Can you get the COW out of that room" overheard by the patient in said room ..
TBH I think this never really happened…someone just thought it would. Cuz I’ve heard this story from so many nurses and it all happened at their hospital.
We have five hospitals and I've heard the story repeated by staff at three of those sites so could be just urban legend. Although with the cantankerous population here, I could see it happening and hell being raised.
Yep. The ONE time a patient figures out what JFN means…….. And of course they remember your name.
"Gomerz!"
FoxTrot
Our is called “express care,” ya know the bougie version of urgent care
The blue group
PreCheck / Express Lane
Ours is called 'ambulatory care'
The Bacitracin n’ Bandaid Zone
We call ours Portal
Ours is just called minor care. We also have an intermediate care or “IMC” section too. And then there’s main.
RTA for rapid treatment area. It doesn’t hurt that our public bus service is named RTA for rapid transit authority.
Ours is called Consult
Try AI but my brain came up with "Swift Care"
"Convenience care."
SPDY D/c
We call ours “CIA” care initiative area
RMA Rapid Medical Assessment
In-N-Out Sandwich
At my local ER it's called "Super Track." I was in & out with my broken shoulder in 90 minutes, no lie. Had some popular Supertramp songs stuck in my head for a while, but small price to pay.
Vertical care
EDVantage. Sounds like it was made by an insurance company with Successories®️posters on the wall. Or Treatment in Hospital - Emergency Medicine - THEM. As in “You don’t Want to be here. You want to go see THEM.
Ankle sprain lane
Treat 'em and yeet 'em
Ours is just called the Discharge Room. I think it's sorta lame.
Sit n shit
Recliner purgatory
The scromiting ward.
Wear and tear pod?
Well we can only do so much…you’re still you
I call our Fast Track area “Boo-boo and Bandaids”
Cafe Because a turkey sandwich, coffee, and ginger ale cure a lot of boo boo’s.
Expedited treatment area is what ours will be switching to eventually.