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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...
Hospitals use 'quick look' to fight ER crowding
Many emergency departments may be suffering from overcrowding, but the good news is that the problem is pushing many hospitals to be creative in finding solutions. One such solution is the so-called... Read more...
Study: Parents take kids to ER to avoid primary care physician
A new study looked at why parents take their children to the emergency department for non-urgent care, and found some surprising results: they aren't doing it to abuse the system, and in some cases... Read more...
Case study: MA hospital creates $1M quick-care unit
These days, virtually any emergency department can say it's overloaded--but the staff at Wareham, MA-based Tobey Hospital had a particularly difficult problem on their hands. The hospital, which... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Hospital EDs not ready for mass casualties
While they may be managing to deal with overcrowding right now, there's no way that the nation's hospital EDs will be ready for mass casualty events such as a natural disaster or terrorist attacks... Read more...
Case study: AZ hospital posts ED wait times on website
Scottsdale, AZ-based Scottsdale Healthcare has taken an approach more common in the travel industry and put it to use in its emergency department. The health system has begun to post emergency... Read more...
EDs seeing more affluent patients, less uninsured
Here's a study that flies in the face of what we've been reading elsewhere. According to new research published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, emergency departments are actually seeing a... Read more...
WA hospitals struggle with extreme ED overloads
While emergency departments are overloaded across the U.S., few regions are struggling quite as hard as Washington state's King County area, where overflowing facilities are closing EDs as often as... Read more...
CMS: Harbor-UCLA places patients in jeopardy
Another Los Angeles county hospital emergency department appears to be facing serious care problems, in an unfortunate echo the problems faced the now-deceased Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor hospital.... Read more...
Survey: ED overcrowding getting worse
Is overcrowding getting worse in your emergency department? Probably, if this survey is any indication. A new poll from the American College of Emergency Physicians found that of almost 1,500... Read more...
