Clara Maass Medical Center, a 445-bed hospital in Belleville, N.J. will provide emergency medical services at Red Bull Arena, a new 25,000 seat soccer stadium in Harrison, N.J. The medical center will use its emergency department medical electronic health record on-site to ensure secure exchange of patient information from the arena's medical center to the hospital when needed.
Medical personnel from Clara Maass Medical Center (CMMC), an affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, will be available at each arena event, including the New York Red Bulls' soccer games.
CMMC's on-site first-aid room at the arena is staffed by a physician and a physician's assistant, as well as an ambulance and two emergency medical technicians for each event. Medical staff can access the electronic health record, a system developed by Livingston, N.J.-based healthcare technology company EDIMS.
"Already, we are seeing the benefits of having a full electronic health record system at the stadium - better quality and expedited care," said John Fontanetta, MD, chairman of emergency medicine for CMMC.
During the first stadium event, an elderly man, enjoying the game with his sons and grandson, experienced shortness of breath and began to pass out, Fontanetta recounts. Security and the EMTs brought him to the first-aid room. Fontanetta, the physician on staff, quickly diagnosed him with congestive heart failure and administered a complete set of medications to stabilize and treat that man's condition.
The CMMC medical team was then able to transfer the patient to the medical center's emergency room, where his care was expedited because the complete medical event record from the stadium, including drug therapies administered, was already in the system. The man was admitted to the hospital and released after four days, Fontanetta said.
"Clara Maass Medical Center and EDIMS provide professional and state-of-the-art medical services for Red Bull Arena," said Red Bull New York Managing Director Erik Stover.
Shane Hade, EDIMS' CEO says the EDIMS system helps clinicians make faster and more informed decisions at the point of care, and enables hospitals like CMMC drive ED quality, safety and efficiency to higher levels.
