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3 hospitals cited for turning away ER patients
As the first state to ban ambulance diversion in 2009 , Massachusetts investigators have cited three hospitals in the past six months for wrongly diverting patients from their emergency rooms--with
'Hospital within a hospital' improves transitions
Instead of discharging patients right away, St. Mary's Health Care in Grand Rapids, Mich., will "discharge" patients to another floor called a "hospital within a hospital" to ease transitions,
Delayed trauma transfers don't leave patients worse off
While Illinois hospitals are routinely taking more time than what the state has deemed necessary to transfer trauma patients to higher level care facilities, researchers believe that it's the state's
