The patient's room number would light up on a screen or an alarm would sound at the nurses' station. A nurse would go to the patient's room and ascertain his or her needs. Then the nurse would have to travel back to the nurse's station to either contact a doctor, retrieve the item the patient needed or to look up patient information on a computer. Now, when a patient buzzes for assistance, he or she is called back immediately to see what the problem is. The nurses' station sends the information directly to a nurse via beeper and the nurse arrives at the room prepared for the patient's needs.
Nurses are also able to receive information from heart and other monitors on their beepers.
Worcester Medical Center Provides Everything a Patient Might Need and More Many patients, especially those who have undergone surgery or perhaps the birth of a child, require outpatient care. Patients usually travel from one doctor's office to another during the days and weeks following their hospital stay. This can be a confusing and exhausting process. By the end of the year 2000, Worcester Medical Center will have over 100 doctors on-site providing a wide range of outpatient treatment and care. Airports have fax machines and manicurists on hand to service busy business travelers, supermarkets house annexes to local utility companies so that customers can shop for food and pay their utility bills at one spot.