Find A Doc At The Door In Parma Hospital's Emergency Department

If you need emergency medical care this winter, remember the doctor is waiting at Parma Hospital’s Emergency Department door.

Parma Hospital’s Emergency Department was the first in the Cleveland area to provide a Doc at the Door, which features a physician assessment of patients within 30 minutes of arrival. The physician can make a preliminary diagnosis and order testing before the patient is brought back into a patient room. The physician-led team includes a nurse, a paramedic and a technician who assist by drawing blood, starting IVs and performing EKGs.

Doc at the Door has dramatically reduced wait times. Some patients can even be discharged directly home without being transferred to a bed.

“We have a dedicated triage team of nurses, paramedics and technicians who work together with the physician,” says Gregory Oswald, MD, medical director of the Emergency Department.

“You get to see the physician right away if you really do have a serious emergency going on.”

Since the inception of Doc at the Door, hospitals from as far away as Connecticut, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Hawaii have traveled here to study and learn from the success of Parma Hospital’s program, which puts physicians on the front line of care.

Patients will find a Doc at the Door in the ED from noon to 10 p.m. daily, including weekends.