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NewsHospitals brace for ED overload, enhance primary care
New research in the Archives of Ophthalmology warns hospitals to prepare for an overload of emergency department (ED) visits after health reform kicks in. Florida hospital EDs already saw patients Read more...
Hospitals adding urgent care clinics to relieve overcrowding, doc shortage
Hospitals trying to ease strained emergency rooms (ERs) and to overcome a lack of primary care physicians are embracing urgent care centers, report Kaiser Health News and USA Today. They increasingly Read more...
After-hours clinic reduces hospital ER crowding
Hospitals have been trying different methods to reduce wait times and ease the overcrowding of strained emergency rooms (ERs). One hospital in Canada has found success with an after-hours medical Read more...
Hospitals closing ERs despite increased visits
U.S. hospitals have closed one out of four emergency departments over the last two decades, even though emergency visits were rising, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Read more...
ER visits rise despite health insurance coverage
Despite the belief that emergency room visits will go down when more people have health insurance, more than 80 percent of emergency physicians reported a rise in ER visits, according to new poll by Read more...
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...
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