Why Focus on Emergency/Acute Care

Hospital emergency units:

• Operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year
• See an average of about 150 patients a day
• Usually first point of call at the hospital for acute care
• Busy and stressful environment for patients, professionals, and caregivers
• Identified need for such services based on experiences of founders
• Compliment hospital’s work with relief assistance to patients at the prescient’s of the hospital