Patent ID: 7627488

Claim:
A computer implemented method for improving hospital revenues by creating a special care unit for retaining qualified patients, wherein the computer implemented method comprises the steps of a. procuring by a computer implemented method an indicator to become a qualified patient; wherein the indicator is selected from the group comprising a uniform, an association identification badge, an association trademark, a sticker with a unique identification mark, a corporation issued smart card, or combinations thereof, from a association wherein the indicator enables care to be provided within thirty minutes of an actual time; b. establishing a special care unit comprising at least one examination room, at least one interface to a computer with data storage and computer instructions executable on a computer in the data storage for scheduling actual times to be seen and computer instructions executable on a computer for accessing and downloading patient histories, and computer instructions executable on a computer for production of reports, at least one work area, and forming a team in a hospital having an emergency department for use by the qualified patient, wherein the team has a doctor and at least one member selected from the group comprising: a nurse, a clerk or combinations thereof; further wherein the special care unit provides services including: i. providing scheduling services for scheduling the actual time for an examination, ii. providing the examination, iii. providing at least one test with results enabling the doctor to provide an evaluation, iv. providing treatment based on the evaluation; and v. providing dispositioning of the qualified patient; c. providing the interface for the qualified patients, wherein the interface is selected from the group comprising a website, telephone service, telephone operator, pager, and combinations thereof; wherein the interface provides the qualified patient with a communication tool to request the actual time to be seen by the team; d. confirming by a computer to the qualified patients the actual time to be seen by the team; and providing a confirmation by a verbal confirmation, an email confirmation, a confirmation by pager, and combinations thereof; e. receiving the qualified patients with the indicator in the special care unit at the actual time; f. examining the qualified patient by the team within thirty minutes of the actual time; g. making the evaluation to either keep the qualified patient in the special care unit or to transfer the qualified patient to a higher level of care area of the emergency department; and h. in the special care unit, if no transfer to the higher level of care area is made, then treating the qualified patient by the team.