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Los Angeles hospital required to reduce ED wait times
Official attitudes, pre-H1N1 outbreak: Long hospital emergency department waits are a complex problem that isn't going away anytime soon. Official attitudes post-H1N1 outbreak: Long ED waits are a... Read more...
Study: Homeless more likely to use ambulance
A new study concludes that homeless people are more likely than other patients to arrive at U.S. hospitals by ambulance, and more than twice as likely than other patients to be uninsured. The study,... Read more...
Case study: DC, MD face high ambulance diversion rates
Many parts of the country, unfortunately, face problems with ambulance diversion due to overcrowding in the emergency department. One prime example can be found in the D.C. metropolitan area, where... Read more...
Emergency doctors slam new HHS chief
Wow, this honeymoon didn't last. The ink was barely dry on HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' appointment as agency chief this week when the country's largest emergency physicians' group came out to... Read more...
How should hospitals deal with long waits?
Hospital officials at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital say they need more beds to handle the excessive number of patients who need care. They have their fingers crossed that a bond measure on the... Read more...
Trend: ED 'super users' generating big expenses
Everyone in the hospital business knows about the emergency department's "frequent fliers"-- the folks who show up a few times a month due to one pain or another, either because they're uninsured,... Read more...
