What's the Buzz
Floyd Memorial has been on diversion a lot these past few years, but it has never been for the reason that occurred in Arkansas.
The University of Arkansas Medical Sciences’ Medical Center’s emergency room went on diversion for about two hours on April 30. It seems that a swarm of about 7,000 bees congregated outside the ER causing the hospital to divert all ambulances to other facilities while they decided how to get rid of the buzzing bees.
Patients being stung and then possibly having an allergic reaction is not good for public relations or liability.
The hospital was able to solicit help from beekeeper Harvey Johnston to manage the problem. By using a vacuum system, he was able to transfer the insects into a box and then transport them to his home where he raises honeybees.
Evidently, when a beehive becomes too crowded, a new queen bee will leave, attracting a swarm that will follow her to a new site. In this case, the queen landed on the exterior wall near the ambulance bay at UAMS.
Patients entering an emergency room may think twice whether their problem is truly an emergency if they had to walk past 7000 loudly buzzing bees.
Could this be a way to curtail over-utilization of emergency rooms?
The University of Arkansas Medical Sciences’ Medical Center’s emergency room went on diversion for about two hours on April 30. It seems that a swarm of about 7,000 bees congregated outside the ER causing the hospital to divert all ambulances to other facilities while they decided how to get rid of the buzzing bees.
Patients being stung and then possibly having an allergic reaction is not good for public relations or liability.
The hospital was able to solicit help from beekeeper Harvey Johnston to manage the problem. By using a vacuum system, he was able to transfer the insects into a box and then transport them to his home where he raises honeybees.
Evidently, when a beehive becomes too crowded, a new queen bee will leave, attracting a swarm that will follow her to a new site. In this case, the queen landed on the exterior wall near the ambulance bay at UAMS.
Patients entering an emergency room may think twice whether their problem is truly an emergency if they had to walk past 7000 loudly buzzing bees.
Could this be a way to curtail over-utilization of emergency rooms?
Labels: bees, utilization
posted by Anonymous at 6:08 AM
4 Comments:
LET THE QUEEN BEE AT FLOYD LEAVE AND SEE HOW MANY FOLLOW!!
I would seriously like to know what is wrong with this person.
Does ANYONE know? Is there a file somewhere that I might be able to get a glimpse of? I would be willing to pay money...
Who is the Queen Bee? Can't imagine who would have the influence to REALLY have followers at Floyd but the bee catcher at the hospital in the article, clever.
The real buzz is no one knows what is going on at FMH. Do we have the same staff in Admin? Never see any of them. Is Truman gone? With the roll out of the numerous new physical therapy groups thought we may have lost him. We were told he was spokesperson for our hospital relative to physical therapy.
TO ANONYMOUS 11:30 PM ,IT WAS AN ATTEMPT TO BE FUNNY!FLOYD DOESN"T HAVE FOLLOWERS,FLOYD ONLY HAS YES MEN AND MEN WHO CAN LIE THEIR WAY OUT OF WHATEVER COMES ACROSS THEIR DESKS.IF YOU EVER HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE ON TELLING THE TRUTH YOU AND MANY WILL BE GONE.THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU AND MANY MORE FREE! FREE FROM FLOYD.YOU WILL BE GONE 2008.ITS IN THE RIGHT HANDS NOW.YOU WILL BE GONE SOON.
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