NEWS The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 7A PATI TS of overcrowding. The hospital is adding EI I I Iautomated services within the emergency Continued from page 1A room to make patients' visits shorter. For greater rates of home care, an aging example, the hospital has recently added population that consumes many X-ray machines that send results instan- health care services, and the fact that taneously to a computer screen viewed hospitals are able to keep chroni- by physicians and support staff. Hospital cally ill patients alive longer all have staff have also begun computerizing all a huge impact on the overcrowding patient information and sending results that hospitals are seeing today, Bar- via transportation tubes from one floor of san said. the hospital to another. Some of the patients crowding emer- These tubes allow for patients to be gency rooms are often waiting to receive kept in one place, while test results are care that could be administered elsewhere reviewed within minutes and sent quickly in the hospital, if there were only enough back to the emergency room. Normally, beds for them to use. patients must be transported outside the But simply adding additional beds is emergency room to receive tests, adding not necessarily a solution to this problem time to their hospital visits. because the state puts a cap on the amount The hospital has also opened an occu- of beds that a hospital is licensed to have. pational health care center alongside the The University Hospital is licensed emergency room to filter out patients who to operate 865 beds, but does not have need care, but are not in such critical con- enough space to operate that many dition that they need to wait in the emer- because some patients are sicker and gency room, Gavin said. require more privacy. The Univer- But all these improvements appear sity is currently using 786 beds, said to be somewhat of a "Catch 22," Barsan Kathryn Gavin, spokeswoman for said. "Each time we get a little better, the the hospital. number of patients goes up," he said. Despite this, the hospital is actively It does not appear that the situation is working to find solutions to the problem going to improve much, especially with the michigan daily A a national shortage of flu vaccines this year, Gavin said. Every year, hundreds of people flock to the emergency room with bad cases of the flu, she said. This year will be especially difficult consid- ering that emergency rooms are already overcrowded and flu season has not hit yet. "It is going to be an interesting win- ter," she added. The University Hospital and other highly rated hospitals are faced with another dilemma - this one long-term and possibly more serious than the impending flu epidemic of this winter. "What happens when there is an emer- gency if all the beds are full?" Gavin asked, referring to a natural disaster, plane crash or terrorist attack. With all of the improvements that the hospital is trying to make, there is still a long way to go. Despite this, Gavin said the hospital is on par with similar hospi- tals in the country in dealing with over- crowding, and is doing better than most inner-city hospitals. But this is little consolation to patients who must wait hours in order to receive medical attention, like Deveaux, who described his visit to the emergency department as "pretty ridiculous." CITATIONS Continued from page 1A University spokeswoman Julie Peter- son, however, said binge-drinking is becoming more serious at the Univer- sity. "We're now a high-binge campus. We're above the national average (for alcohol consumption)," Peterson said. Piersante said problems with binge drinking may also be related to the larger freshman class. "You have a large group of kids com- ing on campus from the younger age group of 18 and 19. I'm guessing a lot of them have not had a lot of experience with drinking - especially hard liquor and binge drinking. They're not able to judge what their body can tolerate and their body becomes incapacitated," he added. Despite the increase, Piersante said DPS has not changed its stance with regard to alcohol violations and has not increased patrols. Under current alcohol laws, first- time offenders receiving an MIP are given a deferred sentence. If an offend- er successfully completes probation, the MIP will be completely taken off the person's permanent record. This is especially helpful when applying for jobs, Piersante said. "It's taking into consideration that there are a lot of people under 21 - especially on a col- lege campus - that are going to drink. It's pretty harsh to have that on your permanent record," he added. Second- and third-time offenders, however, will have harsher penalties. Second-time offenders can face up to 30 days in jail, while third-time offenders can be sentenced to 60 days in jail. Along with the increase in MIPs, there has also been a slight increase in citations for open containers of alcohol in a motor vehicle, increasing from none in 2003 to two this year. There has been a decrease, however, in public urination violations, from 33 in 2003 to 26 this year. Other alcohol violations -including alcohol in Michigan Stadium, on the Diag, on University property and open intoxicants in public - have declined from 86 in 2003 to 63 this year. Piersante attributed the decline in alcohol violations to the University's home football schedule this year. Although the same number of football games were played between Aug. 25 and Oct. 9 in 2003 and 2004, the Notre Dame game was played at home last year. Piersante said the Notre Dame and Ohio State games always generate high numbers of alcohol violations. In fact, these two games alone can almost double the statistics for alcohol viola- tions in a given year. 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