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Prince George's County task force advances hospital-capacity report, flags staffing and quality data gaps
Summary
Task force staff said a near-final draft will be circulated by email after additional hospital responses are incorporated. Members emphasized better staffing data, training pipelines, and how perceptions of quality and social needs affect where residents seek emergency care.
A Prince George's County task force working on a hospital capacity report moved closer to finalizing a draft after staff reported receiving detailed responses from Adventist Healthcare and partial data from other hospitals.
The staff lead said preliminary analysis projects that roughly half of county residents obtain emergency department care inside Prince George's County and that the other half seek care elsewhere — about 23% in other Maryland jurisdictions and about 27% outside Maryland — highlighting an outflow of patients the report aims to explain.
The report will include added material on the economic role of hospital capacity and a separate section on equity, staff said. "We wanted to include additional information on what does having additional hospital capacity…it's not just about health. It's also an important engine for local economic growth," staff said during the meeting.
Task force members pressed for clearer operational data before publication. Laura Ogle, director of nursing professional development at MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center, described how hospitals classify emergency visits by the Emergency Severity Index, a triage tool with levels 1 through 5. "We use the…
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