Section 20-2403 - Strategies and initiativesThe Commission shall develop strategies and initiatives to recommend to State and local agencies, hospitals, and health care providers to reduce emergency department wait times, including :
(1) Initiatives that: (i) Ensure that patients are seen in the most appropriate setting to reduce unnecessary use of emergency departments;
(ii) Improve hospital efficiency, including by increasing emergency department and inpatient throughput; and(iii) Improve postdischarge resources to facilitate timely emergency department and inpatient discharges;(2) By identifying and recommending improvements for the collection and submission of data that is necessary to monitor and reduce emergency department wait times;(3) By making recommendations to State and local agencies, hospitals, and health care providers; and(4) By facilitating the sharing of best practices for reducing emergency department wait times.Added by 2024 Md. Laws, Ch. 844,Sec. 1, eff. 7/1/2024, exp. 7/1/2027.