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NewsClocking time on emergency patients saves lives
Discharging or admitting emergency patients within four hours of arriving to the hospital has saved 80 lives, according to a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Overcrowded emergency Read more...
Dental patients crowd emergency departments
The lack of dental coverage for under- and uninsured patients has hospital emergency departments (ED) seeing toothaches, tooth abscesses and other dental emergencies, USA Today reported. Between 1.3 Read more...
Hospitals reduce ED visits by redirecting non-urgent patients
The number of emergency rooms visits and the time it takes to get treated at the ED continue to climb. So some hospitals are redirecting people with less-urgent issues to alternate healthcare Read more...
Hospital-clinic partnership aims to reduce ER overcrowding, costs
In the span of just a few short months, a Nashville hospital has improved access to primary and preventive care for uninsured and impoverished patients and is on its way to reducing emergency care Read more...
Study: EDs, strained by recession, at a breaking point
Everyone in the healthcare business knows that the emergency department system was already under tremendous pressure before the recession hit. Now, a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation's Read more...
HHS: One-fifth of ED visits are by uninsured patients
Here's some data to chew on: According to HHS research, roughly one-fifth of all 120 million emergency department visits in 2006 were by uninsured persons. The data, while probably drawn on realistic Read more...
Bill would increase payments for ED physicians
A new bill being considered by Congress would take steps intended to help ease the worsening situation in the nation's hospital emergency departments, a problem only made worse by the faltering Read more...
'Hallway medicine' may be key to ED crowding
Of late, hospitals have been redoubling their efforts to get patients out of their emergency departments quickly, in some cases by dispatching the less-sick patients to urgent care centers and Read more...
Common assumptions about uninsured ED users are false, says study
Half of the six most common assumptions about emergency department use by uninsured patients are false, and what's more, the remaining three are supported by fact, but are equally true for both Read more...
Massachusetts orders hospital EDs to halt ambulance diversions
In an unusual step, Massachusetts officials have ordered the state's hospitals to stop re-routing ambulances to other hospitals when their emergency departments become overcrowded. Officials at the Read more...
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