Emergency Acute Care Unit -EACU (Zayed 1 West)

The Johns Hopkins EACU improves throughput and decreases the length of stay in the main ED through:

• Observation of patients for up to 24 hours for sustained studies, testing and treatments (including cardiac imaging/MRIs)
• Cardiac evaluation program
• Primary evaluation of main ED overflow patients, especially patients with sickle cell crisis
• Patients requiring admission or extended care

Patient Population

• Adult and geriatric overflow from the main ED requiring extended care
• Direct referral from community physicians
• Pre-operative transplant patients

Number of Beds

• 17 beds

Nurse/Patient Ratio

• 1:4-5

New grads:

• New Grads: SPRING program

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