"They close emergency rooms or relocate emergency rooms out of places where they're exposed to uninsured," McKay says.
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But we've never seen emergency rooms jammed with damaged livers.
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They're going to be living in the emergency rooms again.
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Emergency rooms, however, do keep this lifesaving medication in stock.
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But emergency rooms by law treat the sickest patients first.
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Texas has addressed concierge emergency rooms in a different way.
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Their emergency rooms are starting to fill up their ICUs.
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Patients got faulty results and were rushed to emergency rooms.
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Emergency rooms are often the source of surprise medical bills.
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Emergency rooms were forced to divert people seeking urgent care.
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Asthmatics are showing up in emergency rooms in greater numbers.
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Asthmatics are showing up in emergency rooms in greater numbers.
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They see emergency rooms deluged and their public parks overrun.
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Alarms go off so frequently in emergency rooms, doctors barely notice.
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The CDC says distance to emergency rooms was a key factor.
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Among the most telling evidence they offer is from emergency rooms.
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She got them from emergency rooms, dentists, psychiatrists, even plastic surgeons.
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Avoid emergency rooms unless you are beginning to have difficulty breathing.
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We flew to emergency rooms, school pickups, maternity wards, kitchen counters.
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Health systems are adopting age-friendly approaches, like specialized emergency rooms.
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They end up at emergency rooms when they are in crisis.
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They'll take their chances on emergency rooms and walk-in clinics.
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The pressures on an already overextended system intensify during annual outbreaks of influenza, peak periods when hospitals and emergency rooms sometimes revert to "diversion," redirecting ambulances to other emergency rooms in an effort to relieve overcrowding.
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Hospital emergency rooms, especially in large metropolitan hospitals, are intimidating, chaotic places.
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From 212.2 to 22017, they found, 6.6 million people visited emergency rooms.
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Most emergency rooms across the country, though, do not offer this care.
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I've come across some astounding charges investigating how emergency rooms bill patients.
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This was possible in some circumstances, such as in hospital emergency rooms.
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They belong in the history books and not in our emergency rooms.
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Specialists working in emergency rooms and intensive care units top the list.
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It was unorthodox, the doctor told her, to shop around emergency rooms.
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By spring 2015, cases of Zika infection began overwhelming hospital emergency rooms.
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Unique said she has had a hard time in regular emergency rooms.
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One of the bills, called the Preventing Overdoses While in Emergency Rooms act, or POWER act, is a bipartisan measure that seeks to provide patients who have overdosed better access to treatment when they get discharged from emergency rooms.
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An additional 101 people living on the streets sought care at emergency rooms.
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Within emergency rooms, a consistent concern is all the regulations around prescribing buprenorphine.
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Emergency rooms of hospitals are overwhelmed by uninsured patients seeking basic medical care.
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Every day, nearly 7,000 people are treated in emergency rooms for abusing painkillers.
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Nursing homes, emergency rooms, police stations, and fire stations scrambled for backup generators.
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The Affordable Care Act also has fueled the expansion of senior emergency rooms.
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Emergency rooms treated almost 13,000 people for fireworks-related injuries just last year.
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Without access to a doctor Medicaid patients are flooding emergency rooms, creating backlogs.
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She stitched together medical care through emergency rooms, free clinics and home remedies.
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Some went without care, and others resorted to charity care at emergency rooms.
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Rule-of-thumb suggestions for the most common symptoms seen in emergency rooms.
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Ambulances with paramedics could transport sicker COVID-19 patients to hospital emergency rooms.
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Emergency rooms would not be overflowing, and Medicaid could be folded into Medicare.
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Were patients less likely to go to emergency rooms or to be hospitalized?
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Were patients less likely to go to emergency rooms or to be hospitalized?
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Like the women and men with fever and headaches who fill emergency rooms.
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But we need hospitals and emergency rooms to step up and provide it.
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During the holiday season, many hospital emergency rooms see a spike in visits.
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People will not die in the streets because there are, you know, emergency rooms.
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As a result, less serious complaints in emergency rooms translates into longer wait times.
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Patients had also sought help for their migraines in emergency rooms or with ophthalmologists.
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In rural Borno State, proper emergency rooms do not exist to treat the injured.
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Blackouts rolled across the country, shutting off the lights in homes and emergency rooms.
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The state allows free-standing emergency rooms, many of which act as concierge providers.
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Some 28,000 Americans are sent to emergency rooms each year because of domestic violence.
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These diseases should be seen only in history books — not in our emergency rooms.
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Currently, hospital emergency rooms must see and stabilize any patient who enters their doors.
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They are ringing up orders at pharmacies and taking our temperature in emergency rooms.
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"Our places are kind of concierge emergency rooms," co-founder Andrew Olanow told Insider.
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CHICAGO — The patients have arrived at emergency rooms across Illinois with mysterious, unnerving symptoms.
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About 400 patients are coming to its emergency rooms each day with flulike symptoms.
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And with my enormous deductible, I avoided emergency rooms and ambulances at all costs.
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These professionals are different from the registered nurses working in hospitals and emergency rooms.
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That allows emergency rooms to discharge patients after an overdose without screening them for depression.
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The geriatric emergency room at Mt. Sinai is set up differently than traditional emergency rooms.
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Adeptus Health, a publicly traded operator of freestanding emergency rooms, is in seriously bad shape.
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The data shows 249 people were admitted to their emergency rooms with electric scooter injuries.
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Emergency rooms are one of the most common locations where healthcare results in surprise bills.
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Dogs generally aren't filling emergency rooms with pet owners who received too much puppy love.
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For the study, researchers followed 5,661 adolescents who visited Ontario emergency rooms for self-harm.
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Emergency rooms typically check it, she said, and family members can't override that opt-in.
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Another 55 commit suicide, and another 151 are treated in emergency rooms for gunshot wounds.
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Some hospitals already offer less stressful environments for older patients, including specialized geriatric emergency rooms.
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Hospital emergency rooms are filling up with flu sufferers, and pharmacies have reported medicine shortages.
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Keep talking about it, use hotlines, emergency rooms, doctors, clergy, family, friends, strangers and pets.
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Its products could be used to supply operating and emergency rooms, along with outpatient locations.
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Advertising for Canada's MAiD service (Medical Assistance in Dying) is ghoulishly displayed in emergency rooms.
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Meanwhile, 18 people self-reported to local emergency rooms for issues relating to the blast.
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Having spent 6900 years coordinating care in emergency rooms, I know something about setting priorities.
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But this approach does little more than foist Medicaid patients onto already overburdened emergency rooms.
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There's a common fallacy that emergency rooms have to treat everyone — but that isn't true.
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Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat all patients regardless of their ability to pay.
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In emergency rooms across the country, ketamine is used every day to sedate people in pain.
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KERNEN: BUT YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE GOING BACK TO EMERGENCY ROOMS BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT NOTHING ELSE.
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Hospitals were a big ACA beneficiary because many emergency rooms were providing free care for patients.
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In surgical centers and free-standing emergency rooms, the facility fee can be thousands of dollars.
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There have been reports of the flu causing overcrowded emergency rooms and medicine shortages at pharmacies.
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For those who work in emergency rooms, it's impossible to predict what the day will bring.
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Roberts noted that she and her colleagues looked only at injuries treated by hospital emergency rooms.
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"We can't be a box that takes care of patients with emergency rooms attached," said Hochman.
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In 2015, there were more than 6,000 K2-related visits to New York City's emergency rooms.
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Vital's selling the service to emergency rooms with a starting sticker price of $10,000 per month.
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Babies die because it is hard to find or afford infant formula, even in emergency rooms.
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HEALTHCARE - Lower wait times in emergency rooms - Commission a review of Alberta and for certain surgeries.
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"Facility fees" are the price emergency rooms charge for walking in the door and seeking care.
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That ban makes it harder for emergency rooms to know how to deal with mass shootings.
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Of those patients who were taken to emergency rooms, however, more than 80 percent were admitted.
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He said several people had gone to hospital emergency rooms for light injuries and panic attacks.
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The uninsured largely depend on a patchwork of community clinics and hospital emergency rooms for care.
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Paramedics' radio frequencies were so clogged that some used cellphones to call ahead to emergency rooms.
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New York (CNN Business)Go into most US emergency rooms, and you'll find staff wear Crocs.
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Doctors say that when homeless people arrive at emergency rooms, they are often already very sick.
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"Emergency rooms better start staffing up because their psychiatric units are going to be overflowing," Sen.
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Cutting Medicaid will push more people with untreated mental illness into emergency rooms, homelessness and jails.
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"Avoidable visits" are the latest conflict among doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and patients over emergency rooms.
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Most likely, he said, those people will wind up in hospital emergency rooms for basic care.
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Knowing there are no emergency rooms in space, we had to weigh our options very carefully.
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It shows that more and more emergency rooms are billing the severe, expensive facility fee charges.
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Somebody had to stand in those emergency rooms getting sprayed with blood to get that footage.
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From 2010 to 2013, about 30,000 patients visited emergency rooms every year with sports-related eye injuries.
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These bills show the steep costs that emergency rooms can charge just for walking through their doors.
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Roughly 213 children a day either die or are treated in emergency rooms because of gun violence.
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Police officers need training to recognize symptoms of mental illness and choose emergency rooms over jail cells.
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The U.S. health care system has been struggling with severe overcrowding in emergency rooms for many years.
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She wanted to make sure she could avoid crowded emergency rooms should she return with flulike symptoms.
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Emergency rooms did little but let me sleep it off — a nap that cost thousands of dollars.
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Health care workers are speaking in increasingly alarming terms about the situation in the nation's emergency rooms.
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Black patients are 22 times less likely to get any kind of pain relief in emergency rooms.
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Deadly diseases that should be seen only in history books are showing up in our emergency rooms.
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Nationally, about 140 million people visited emergency rooms in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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Thousands of patients sick with the novel coronavirus have swarmed into emergency rooms and intensive care units.
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And the crisis puts stress on public resources, from emergency rooms to jails to public works departments.
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But I've done them all over the place and in all different circumstances: airports, cafes, emergency rooms.
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Emergency rooms, doctors' offices and ambulances were disrupted in Britain and communications were affected in other countries.
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Many emergency rooms have reported leaps in e-scooter injuries, causing several municipalities to ban their use.
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The practice has sent dozens of people like Jenkins to emergency rooms over the last two years.
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It applies to emergency rooms, the great majority of which do little to nothing to treat addiction.
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And it's not clear how Deerfield's restructuring plan will change Adeptus' underlying financial problems with its emergency rooms.
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Critics say transfer agreements are unnecessary because federal law requires emergency rooms to accept anyone who shows up.
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Working in emergency rooms, I've learned to identify drug seekers from down the hall and sniff out lies.
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But people who visited emergency rooms and had inpatient hospital stays were less likely to get the vaccine.
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Emergency rooms can be incredibly unfair to the poorest patients A Russian court banned an anti-Putin video.
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Everytown gathered its data from 30 million discharge records from 950 hospitals and emergency rooms over three years.
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Alaska Regional Hospital and Providence Alaska Medical Center suffered damage but were able to keep emergency rooms open.
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The database offers a representative sampling of visits to the approximately 5,000 emergency rooms in the United States.
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And, of course, emergency rooms also get patients that have had food poisoning or allergic reactions to food.
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PreDxion Bio believes that it has a blood test that could cut down on deaths in emergency rooms.
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The worst flu season in nearly a decade has filled emergency rooms and strained resources at medical centers.
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She hung around emergency rooms, running errands, observing surgery, pretending to belong until the staff realized she didn't.
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Critically ill patients in their emergency rooms also had to wait longer to be transferred to the ICU.
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Officials said they had shut down or quarantined hospital emergency rooms in Daegu where the patients passed through.
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Nine people were taken to emergency rooms across the state, four of whom were admitted to the hospital.
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Emergency rooms don't make these fees public, so it's difficult to predict what you might have to pay.
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To cite one particularly skeevy example, ad firms target campaigns for personal injury lawyers to people in emergency rooms.
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From 2014 to 2015, 7.1 million people went to emergency rooms, and 8.5 percent of patients were frequent visitors.
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Emergency rooms typically charge higher facility fees to cases they deem especially complex, using a 2966 to 2150 scale.
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Plus, fewer evictions inevitably lifts a tremendous cost to the city from homeless shelters, emergency rooms, and law enforcement.
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This is because this population tends to also over utilize public services: shelters, jails, emergency rooms, and first responders.
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Emergency rooms often serve as gateways to longer stays, and the time spent in bed leads quickly to deconditioning.
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In the United States, hospital emergency rooms have seen a fifty-per-cent increase in schizophrenia admissions since 2006.
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But some workers disagree, as they expect that more patients will flood the emergency rooms in the coming days.
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The center differs, though, from hospital emergency rooms, which have to take anyone who walks in off the street.
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Hospitals nationwide report clogged emergency rooms, and pharmacies are experiencing shortages of over-the-counter and prescription flu remedies.
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This was designed in collaboration with clinicians, and over 100 of them have already been distributed to emergency rooms.
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It means that infected people have wandered through offices, buses, restaurants, emergency rooms and malls, indiscriminately spreading the virus.
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There were roughly 70,000 psychiatric visits to public hospital emergency rooms in each of the last two fiscal years.
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The Hong Kong Hospital Authority treated about 1583 injured people from the university at emergency rooms on Tuesday morning.
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Many have ignored official urging not to visit hospitals unless they are seriously ill, crowding emergency rooms for testing.
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But even 2,000 kids showing up in emergency rooms every year because of baby walkers is still too many.
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They examined the bills emergency rooms were producing and compared them with what Medicare was paying for the same services.
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Venezuelans have made more than 30,000 visits to Colombia emergency rooms thus far this year, surpassing the total in 2017.
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All told, there were 249 people who visited these emergency rooms with injuries associated with e-scooters within that year.
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Those people may never have to worry, and fewer of them will have to spend their weeks inside emergency rooms.
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"Daily, literally daily, we're exposed to violent outbursts, in particular in our emergency rooms," Cleveland Clinic CEO Tom Mihaljevic said.
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In the United States each year, there are over 35 million hospital admissions and 136 million visits to emergency rooms.
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Medicaid recipients are more likely to visit emergency rooms rather than seeking more effect care with a primary care physician.
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Nationwide, more than 4,800 people visited emergency rooms for pool chemical-associated health issues in 2012, according to the report.
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HB2 also requires abortion clinics to become ambulatory surgical centers, essentially mini emergency rooms that can handle complex medical situations.
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In 2008, 149 men and one woman presented to five different emergency rooms in Singapore with extremely low blood pressure.
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Inevitably, if you work in emergency rooms or places like them, you run across people who have committed terrible acts.
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Between 2005 and 2012, more than 300,000 visits were made to British emergency rooms because of injuries caused by violence.
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They were less likely to go to the emergency rooms -- enrollees were charged up to $25 for non-emergency visits.
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The 120-year-old hospital has nearly 1,000 beds and one of the busiest emergency rooms in New York City.
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We need outreach to these people on the streets and in healthcare centers and emergency rooms and in correctional facilities.
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Stancliff believes that these hard numbers could be used to help persuade emergency rooms to change how they handle overdoses.
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That means that 6.6 percent of all people who went to clinics or emergency rooms had a flu-like illness.
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Emergency rooms and urgent care centers can treat the injuries, he said, but most instant soup injuries aren't life-threatening.
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In large cities, hospitals report armed confrontations in emergency rooms, and school administrators say threats and weapons have become commonplace.
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Spending time in emergency rooms and hospitals often takes a toll on residents, even if their ailments can be treated.
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The uptick has crowded emergency rooms across the state, forcing some hospitals to temporarily divert ambulances and hire more staff.
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Ambulances will be connected to emergency rooms sending your vital signs to waiting doctors well in advance of your arrival.
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Emergency rooms: There are now three types of emergency departments: stand-alone E.D.s, mini-hospital E.D.s and traditional hospital E.D.s.
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Generally speaking, the protocol in emergency rooms doesn't include giving suicidal patients ketamine, and he argues that this should change.
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But if we want anyone working on this problem, it's the battle-hardened doctors and nurses of America's emergency rooms.
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It took less than 72 hours for the government to relent, as emergency rooms across the country quickly became overcrowded.
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It opened in 2017 and accepts patients from emergency rooms across Los Angeles County once they are deemed stable medically.
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Research shows that women wait longer in emergency rooms and are less likely to be given effective painkillers than men.
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They began contacting the 763 individuals identified through EMS calls or who visited emergency rooms with a scooter-related injury.
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Local emergency rooms can also offer crisis stabilization and safety measures, and help individuals connect to ongoing mental health care.
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Hospitals would again face many uninsured patients in their emergency rooms, without the extra Medicaid money they have been expecting.
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Many of the injured wind up in the emergency rooms of hospitals in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region.
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For hospitals, with power failures came chaos: dialysis, respirators, chemotherapy and emergency rooms all rely on a consistent power supply.
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Emergency rooms were overwhelmed: Nationwide, they were treating as many as a thousand patients a day for prescription opioid misuse.
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Let's begin with emergency rooms, which many people believed would get less use after passage of the Affordable Care Act.
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The opinions of doctors and nurses who have worked in emergency rooms — probably the most dangerous place in hospitals — were split.
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Doctors in busy emergency rooms can miss an early diagnosis of sepsis, which can be mistaken for a lower grade infection.
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As a result, rescue services received more than 750 emergency calls and emergency rooms were overstretched with patients with bone fractures.
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They also want to steer people into these walk-in clinics and away from more expensive sites such as emergency rooms.
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In addition to being chaotic, emergency rooms are among the most expensive places in the health system to get urgent care.
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While Dexter is designed to be used by consumers, Harris said early deployment could be in urgent care and emergency rooms.
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Photo: GettyA new report from the Washington Post found that emergency rooms have seen a spike in incidents involving electric scooters.
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The number of people visiting doctors' offices and emergency rooms was rising, with 6.6 percent of such visits related to flu.
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The agreements, Cox argued, are redundant because federal law requires that emergency rooms and ambulances care for any patient in need.
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Every year, about 38,000 people visit emergency rooms for injuries related to tip-over accidents, a majority involving children under 5.
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"They could attack it one drug at a time, they could attack chronic care, they could attack emergency rooms," Dimon said.
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About 30,000 sports-related eye injuries were treated each year at the emergency rooms participating in the database, the researchers found.
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As an observational study in just two emergency rooms, the new research can't establish a concrete risk of injury per ride.
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Analysts say the new company can lower spending if it promotes CVS's walk-in MinuteClinics as an alternative to emergency rooms.
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In recent years there has been a reduction in the overall number of hospitals, emergency rooms and hospital beds, Toner said.
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But we're not able to see inside the emergency rooms and intensive care units where this invisible demon is being fought.
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As emergency rooms grapple with the influx of new patients, scientists are trying to figure out exactly why this is happening.
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Add to this picture waiting lists for Meals on Wheels, overuse of emergency rooms, loneliness, isolation and inadequate accessible affordable housing.
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It just wouldn't work, he concludes, because of the federal requirement that emergency rooms treat patients regardless of ability to pay.
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Hospital data analyzed by Dr. Monte and others indicate that more people are arriving at emergency rooms for marijuana-related reasons.
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Family members tell of frightened and confused residents arriving unaccompanied at emergency rooms, unable to give clear accounts of their problems.
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Perhaps we need a national program called "Lean on Me" that is available in schools, emergency rooms and places of employment.
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They were more likely to miss school because of illness and made more trips to emergency rooms and urgent care clinics.
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Hospitals with limited intensive care facilities are re-tooling recovery or emergency rooms by installing ventilators sometimes stripped from operating theatres.
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They flooded the city's emergency rooms, swamped ambulance call lines and joined lines around pharmacies during six hours on Nov. 21.
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The mothers say the federal agency should be doing a better job letting emergency rooms know about the signs of AFM.
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Some people, without access to mental health services and support systems, wind up homeless, in emergency rooms and often re-arrested.
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Private rooms are also hard to come by in busy, overcrowded emergency rooms, and patients may be inappropriately clustered by gender.
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I understand why the authorities don't want journalists visiting hospitals: Silgado described filthy emergency rooms with no electricity or running water.
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Allergic reactions account for 200,000 visits to US emergency rooms every year, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.
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Hennum said Dignity Health St. Rose-Dominican's emergency rooms are prepared to address any patient issues that come through its doors.
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Shelters, short-term hotels, free food, cash allowances, emergency rooms, health care and the like provide temporary relief and perpetual homelessness.
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The second reportedly would have regulated that city-funded hospital emergency rooms have morning-after pills available to rape victim patients.
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" It's money "that health care providers won't get when some of the 13 million uninsured start showing up in emergency rooms.
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But still, about 2,000 kids get treated in US emergency rooms for walker-related injuries every year, the Pediatrics study found.
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Janak needed intensive care for months and was in and out of emergency rooms for years afterward due to lung problems.
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But Southern California's persistent smog has been closing schools, filling emergency rooms, and causing premature deaths for more than half a century.
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Last year, nearly 13,000 people were treated in emergency rooms in the U.S. due to injuries related to fireworks, the NFPA said.
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Overcrowded public schools and hospital emergency rooms near our southern border have never inconvenienced Wall Street executives or their high-income peers.
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"Vaccine preventable diseases belong in the history books, not in our emergency rooms," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters.
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" Kasich said, adding that people whose coverage he says would suffer under the bill will be "living in the emergency rooms again.
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Here's the basic problem: As Vox and others have reported, in-network emergency rooms are often staffed by out-of-network doctors.
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They pay more visits to doctors and emergency rooms and have more hospital admissions because of a flare-up of respiratory symptoms.
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In January this year, he started Vital Software, with Dr. Justin Schrager of Emory University, which makes software for hospital emergency rooms.
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The analysis also found that the number of adults who visited emergency rooms increased by about 30 percent from 2002 to 2011.
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Many physicians have responded to these incentives by aggressively managing chronic illness to keep people healthy and out of expensive emergency rooms.
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For instance, she's worked with health systems to keep some of CityMD's centers open later, taking the burden off nearby emergency rooms.
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And for each fatal overdose, there are approximately 30 nonfatal overdoses -- many of the cases appearing in emergency rooms across the country.
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You are on record saying that MedExpress can do 90 percent of what an emergency rooms does at 1/10 the cost.
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Emergency rooms and ambulances aren't real marketplaces — consumers can't stop and shop for the best price in the middle of an emergency.
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To keep the sick and the healthy from mingling in clinics and emergency rooms, online medical consultations and prescriptions became the norm.
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Regional hospitals: MRTCs and community-based physicians would significantly reduce the flow of patients to regional hospital emergency rooms and isolation wards.
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And many patients who ended up in the hospital had previously been sent home after seeking help at emergency rooms or clinics.
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But more often than not, they stem from a misunderstanding of how emergency rooms operate and how patients themselves can be helpful.
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Harrison and Delgado also started promoting ''emergency abortion pill reversal kits,'' glorified instructional pamphlets intended for emergency rooms and crisis pregnancy centers.
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Hospitals across the state were suddenly inundated with patients seeking mental health services in emergency rooms not equipped to handle their needs.
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For example, WannaCry hobbled National Health Service hospitals and facilities in the UK, impacting emergency rooms, medical procedures, and overall patient care.
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Among the victims were Britain's National Health Service, which had to close emergency rooms in a number of hospitals as a result.
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If people who would otherwise overdose without medical attention are instead using naloxone and going to emergency rooms, that's a good thing.
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Between 22017 and 2015, there were 1,201 eye burns from laundry detergent pods among kids in this age group treated in emergency rooms.
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And far too many people with mental illness are in jail or emergency rooms, instead of getting the help they need to recover.
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It claims to be able to reduce the use of emergency rooms by a fifth, and inpatient stays in hospitals by two-fifths.
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Some are separate units with trained staff; others are merely sections within traditional emergency rooms with extra hearing aids and other senior supplies.
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Many of those they would happily write off will end up in emergency rooms, rather than doctor's offices, driving up societal healthcare costs.
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There are other initiatives popping up around the state, Marsch said, including one program that connects patients in emergency rooms with addiction resources.
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The number of adolescents treated for sexual abuse in emergency rooms more than doubled between 22019 and 2016, according to a new study.
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Zeller believes psychiatric patients are waiting long periods in emergency rooms because so few ERs employ practitioners who are trained to treat them.
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Nonetheless, officials said, 22 people were admitted to hospital emergency rooms on Thursday for suspected overdoses, well above the daily average last month.
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At least 130 victims were taken to emergency rooms between Monday and Wednesday, more than the entire total for the month of June.
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Complaints about poor care (egregious wait times, doctor shortages, overburdened emergency rooms, etc.) under the U.K.'s National Health System are well documented.
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Branstetter shared stories of people being turned away from emergency rooms, subjected to unnecessary and costly testing, and denied basic care and coverage.
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The study used Consumer Product Safety Commission information on children who were taken to emergency rooms for amusement ride injuries over 20 years.
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Emergency rooms are facing severe shortages of commonly used drugs, in part because of problems at Pfizer plants, The New York Times reports.
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If NYU's plan is approved, students will be placed in internal medicine programs or emergency rooms at NYU-affiliated hospitals in the area.
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It also found large decreases in the share of people struggling to pay medical bills and relying on hospital emergency rooms for care.
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Therefore, our system already pays for health care for undocumented immigrants — usually through emergency rooms, which are the most expensive form of care.
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Many Democrats argue on economic grounds, pointing out that undocumented immigrants often rely on emergency rooms for care, which costs far more money.
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Most medical billing experts say it is rare for major emergency rooms to be completely out-of-network with all private health plans.
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That evidence was carefully collected in emergency rooms around the country linked together in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, or Pecarn.
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Envision has been under pressure for reportedly charging hospitals where it runs emergency rooms an unusually high number of out-of-network billings.
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Seeking speed, convenience and lower expenses, consumers are popping into urgent-care centers instead of hospital emergency rooms for modest ailments or treatments.
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On one end of the spectrum, HCA has added hospitals and moved into free-standing emergency rooms and other businesses outside the hospital.
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Emergency rooms at area hospitals were open but outpatient clinics were closed, and non-emergency appointments were being rescheduled, CNN affiliate KPRC reported.
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The attack had caused some patients to be turned away from emergency rooms, and surgical procedures and medical appointments needed to be rescheduled.
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The bills would decriminalize simple drug possession entirely and require hospitals and emergency rooms to provide addiction treatment on demand, among other reforms.
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C.D.C. flu data relies on reports from doctors' offices, clinics and hospital emergency rooms about how many patients come in with flu symptoms.
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Union-backed home care training programs in California have been proven to keep consumers healthy in their homes and out of emergency rooms.
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Emergency rooms respond like overbooked restaurants during a chaotic dinner rush, with doctors pressed to turn stretchers the way waiters hurriedly turn tables.
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This one will last a year, following a July through November study that found 176 people went to emergency rooms with scooter injuries.
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They continued to serve for their lifetimes in courtrooms and classrooms and emergency rooms and board rooms and community organizations and legislative chambers.
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Sorry, but where is the cost calculation for the millions who will be sicker without insurance and use hospitals and emergency rooms anyway?
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During the flu season, especially, people frequently enter emergency rooms with pneumonia and doctors there haven't asked about vaping until recently, scientists say.
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People without health insurance are more likely to resort to emergency rooms for basic care, and chronic conditions like diabetes often go untreated.
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It noted that emergency rooms are "costly to operate for a variety of factors," and those expenses get factored into their patients' visits.
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There is some evidence that the program helps people stay out of emergency rooms and hospitals: A study in the American Journal of Public Health of 200 chronically ill former inmates in San Francisco, half assigned to a Transitions clinic and half to a primary care program, found that the Transitions patients' use of emergency rooms was 50 percent lower.
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Shorten said that he would spend A$500 million on upgrading hospital emergency rooms and give more cash for mental health services for youths.
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Some 1,145 Americans ages 12 to 17 were admitted to emergency rooms for energy drink-related health emergencies in 2007, according to the CDC.
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The drug is supposed to be administered only in medically-supervised health care settings, such as hospitals and emergency rooms, by approved medical staff.
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That's because insurers pay emergency rooms only for their initial encounter with a patient, but not for time spent waiting for an inpatient bed.
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Patients like Solar end up in the ER because they can't find care in the community, and emergency rooms can't legally turn anyone away.
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The U.K.'s National Health Service was one of the biggest organizations hit, forcing doctors to turn patients away and emergency rooms to close.
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Past attacks, such as those in London last year, have left hospitals frantically transferring patients and redirecting the injured away from affected emergency rooms.
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Scooter-related injuries rose during a pilot period in Portland, Oregon, but most injuries seen by emergency rooms across the city were not severe.
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Erin ultimately went through emergency rooms, halfway houses and sober homes, outpatient treatment, and brief stints at inpatient clinics, each with their own costs.
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Departments that use these "co-response" teams report that they detain fewer people and take fewer disturbed people to emergency rooms, thereby saving money.
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The data showed that between 1990 and 20153, almost 17,000 children younger than six were treated in emergency rooms for window-blind related injuries.
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Every day, more than 1,000 Americans are treated in emergency rooms for opioid misuse, and 91 die from opioid overdoses, according to the CDC.
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Emergency rooms typically tack on hundreds or thousands of dollars in hospital and doctor fees just for receiving the injections in an ER setting.
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It is expensive and painful, and the only thing I've learned from living with it is that all emergency rooms smell exactly the same.
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Two of the city's main hospitals -- Alaska Regional and Providence Alaska Medical Center -- sustained damage but emergency rooms were open, according to hospital officials.
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Children in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates were even more likely to visit emergency rooms after days with poor air quality, the study showed.
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Similar increases in overdoses have rippled recently through Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia, overwhelming ambulance crews and emergency rooms and stunning some antidrug advocates.
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In response to the overdoses, the city is sending a health alert to emergency rooms and other health care providers warning about the drug.
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Hospital emergency rooms have been forced to close, in part because so many poor, uninsured, nonpaying patients, including immigrants, are provided with free care.
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Hospital emergency rooms are required by law to take all patients who walk in the door, and to treat the most dire cases first.
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" Read more " A new study found that heart patients admitted to two emergency rooms in Florida were more likely to survive with female doctors.
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For every death in the U.S., there are more than 240 treated in emergency rooms, with an annual cost of $250 billion in 22.
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They happen in emergency rooms for good reason: Doctors often need to know whether a woman is pregnant to determine her course of care.
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As the coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S., hospitals and insurance companies are expecting a swell in visitors to clinics and emergency rooms.
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More than 230,000 children younger than 15 months were treated in emergency rooms for injuries incurred while using infant walkers from 1990 to 2014.
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On the front lines, patients are lining up outside of our emergency rooms and clinics looking to us for answers — but we have few.
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Now it's on doctors and nurses in emergency rooms across the US, who are also desperate for personal protective equipment like masks and gloves.
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As such, he added, the VA has started screening people with respiratory issues for the coronavirus before they are allowed to enter emergency rooms.
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They're going to have to go to the emergency rooms where they've been except that now it's going to cost a lot more money.
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Researchers at the University of Virginia are developing genetic testing to keep children with undiagnosed Type I diabetes out of emergency rooms, NPR reports.
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Psychiatrically ill Americans who lost their coverage would be forced to seek treatment in emergency rooms, causing a meteoric rise in health care costs.
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When they do get sick (and some will get sick), emergency rooms must take them according to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
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The second map contained information about support resources for victims, including the locations of crisis centers and emergency rooms and numbers for rape hotlines.
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The most disruptive attacks infected Britain's public health system, where surgeries had to be rescheduled and some patients were turned away from emergency rooms.
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"All too often, during the past two decades, patients have been discharged from emergency rooms without any linkage to downstream care," Alexander told CNN.
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More than half of all primary and secondary teachers are expected to walk out and hospital emergency rooms nationwide will operate on thin staffing.
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They're hoping to get more people into their walk-in clinics at drugstores and keep them out of more expensive sites like emergency rooms.
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We found that privately insured patients seen at Zuckerberg General end up with significantly bigger bills than those seen at other nearby emergency rooms.
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At the height of the drug's popularity last summer, Broward County emergency rooms were admitting over 20153 people per month for flakka-related symptoms.
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At the height of the drug's popularity last summer, Broward County emergency rooms were admitting over 300 people per month for flakka-related symptoms.
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Nearly 10,000 children between the ages of 2000 and 22016 go to U.S. emergency rooms with scald burns from instant soup and noodles each year.
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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - Marijuana is sending visitors to Colorado to hospital emergency rooms at an increasing rate, according to a new study.
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However, some healthcare providers are concerned that allowing doctors to involuntarily detain people with substance use disorders will burden emergency rooms, reports the Associated Press .
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Or, Robinson added, uninsured women unnecessarily take up space in emergency rooms, where their care ends up costing the state more than it had to.
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Researchers examined data on 29,893 kids under six years old who were treated in emergency rooms nationwide for "foreign object ingestion" between 1995 and 2015.
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Nine in ten kids treated in emergency rooms for swallowing foreign objects were treated and released without being admitted to the hospital, the study found.
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A study published in the journal Tobacco Control found that emergency rooms saw "an estimated 213 e-cigarette explosion and burn injuries" from 225–286.
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The Affordable Care Act does not provide insurance to undocumented immigrants, forcing them to seek care through emergency rooms, which drives up health care costs.
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Fixing the US health care system and lowering the cost of medical care seem like better end goals than keeping people away from emergency rooms.
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The Coburn-Ryan proposal suggested letting the DMV and emergency rooms enroll the uninsured into coverage, when they turn up to apply for other services.
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Dr. Maman, who did not treat Underwood, explains that physicians in emergency rooms and urgent care facilities are capable of taking care of facial injuries.
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The boomlet in geriatric emergency rooms stems in part from an increase in older patients with complex conditions who are seeking care in regular ERs.
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The first type is those from emergency rooms, when patients go to an in-network facility and end up with an out-of-network provider.
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"We were so not prepared for the protocol [and] procedure that happened at the emergency rooms with infants that small," the father of one continued.
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A total of 360,937 children were treated in emergency rooms for these kinds of accidents, an average of 17,23 each year, the research team discovered.
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The machines are in more than 200 locations in the US and abroad, including college campuses, emergency rooms, doctors offices, corporate and student wellness centers.
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And in the rest, the best available research says Housing First might not save money—but it's better spent on prevention than on emergency rooms.
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Uninsured patients had been costing hospitals a lot of money, as emergency rooms are not allowed, by law, to turn away people who can't pay.
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The U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) was one of the biggest organizations hit, forcing doctors to turn patients away and emergency rooms to close.
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An innovation-driven shift is resulting in slowing growth rates through the front doors of many hospitals, and even fewer emergency rooms visits, she explained.
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Most adults who become homeless first start utilizing the healthcare system more and more in emergency rooms, as inpatients or in nursing homes, he said.
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Yet she admitted that she sometimes longed to be back at one of the front-line emergency rooms, despite all the misery she had seen.
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In emergency rooms, once people recover from an overdose, they may be given a list of phone numbers for treatment centers but not much else.
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In the month around July 4th, an average of 220 people end up in emergency rooms each day with fireworks-related injuries, the agency reports.
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They're hoping to get more people into their walk-in clinics, MinuteClinics, at drugstores and keep them out of more expensive sites like emergency rooms.
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Since then, this reality has undergirded all debates about healthcare in America: If people are uninsured, they're still able to get treated at emergency rooms.
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Less Medicaid money would also hurt the hospital industry—meanwhile, more low-income people who lacked insurance would be coming to emergency rooms for treatment.
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Certainly in my state (New Jersey), and pretty much everywhere else, sick people can walk into emergency rooms and get care, regardless of financial condition.
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They typically are cared for in community clinics, which often charge based on income, or in emergency rooms, which could leave them with big bills.
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But Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts says it will waive co-pays for coronavirus treatment at doctor's offices, emergency rooms and urgent care centers.
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As the coronavirus swamps the country's doctors, hospitals and emergency rooms, it's become clear that the U.S. healthcare system is not ready for this pandemic.
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Those that remain will be devoted to emergency rooms, high-tech services for premature babies, patients requiring brain surgery and organ transplants, and the like.
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Plenty of children still fall into a gray area, which is why emergency rooms often observe for long periods of time before making these decisions.
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Level 3 gowns are also used commonly in emergency rooms and are worn to protect hospital workers from infection or illness, according to the FDA.
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What kicked it into hyper-growth was when health systems realized that these little mom and pop centers were draining their profit-making emergency rooms.
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With an intense flu season in full swing, hundreds of thousands of coughing and feverish patients have already overwhelmed emergency rooms around the United States.
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But in conversations with doctors who run emergency rooms, another problem beyond pain management surveys is how we approach the issue and diagnosis of pain.
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The idea is they can add more services to the clinics and steer people into them and away from more expensive facilities like emergency rooms.
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Second, we ask our elected officials to co-sponsor the Preventing Overdoses While in Emergency Rooms (POWER) Act of 2018, which is in both chambers.
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In 2011, patients in N.H.S. emergency rooms in England waited a little over two hours on average from attendance to departure, as Mr. Barrasso noted.
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During the year, approximately 15 percent of people who seek treatment at emergency rooms do so in response to alcohol consumption, the health service said.
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"What we have today isn't working: emergency rooms are full; we're losing specialists; we're not able to attract good doctors in this area," said Valadao.
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Black and Hispanic patients in U.S. emergency rooms are less likely to receive medication to ease acute pain than their white counterparts, a study suggests.
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And they recorded more visits to hospital emergency rooms, which are required by law to care for all comers, regardless of their ability to pay.
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This seems to be especially true in emergency rooms, which are open when other doctors' offices are closed — and charge a premium for their services.
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Emergency rooms in the city's Pasig area were inundated with patients vomiting and suffering from diarrhea and dizziness, according to staff who spoke to Reuters.
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So, contrary to what some media outlets have suggested, it's unlikely the nation's emergency rooms are noticing any substantial decrease in gunshot victims during convention weekends.
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The drug maker committed to offer discounts on a pair of heart drugs, which are used by hospital emergency rooms, after raising prices tremendously last year.
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The 2018-193 season also had lower hospitalization rates for adults, though a similar proportion of children appeared in hospital emergency rooms with signs of illness.
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"Vaccine-preventable diseases belong in the history books, not in our emergency rooms," said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in a press briefing Monday.
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Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows 2.8 million older people are treated in emergency rooms annually for falls, and 800,000 are hospitalized.
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Pressuring doctors to admit patients from emergency rooms, leading to a $260 million deal against a hospital system that is now owned by Community Health Systems.
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"Vaccine-preventable diseases belong in the history books, not our emergency rooms," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a media call Monday.
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According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), there were 18,400 holiday decorating-associated injuries seen in emergency rooms from November 2016 through January 2017.
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The situation was familiar to Rodriquez: Because of her long history of migraines, she has previously received similar treatment at other emergency rooms in Northern California.
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The 2013 study used Consumer Product Safety Commission information on children and teens who were taken to emergency rooms for amusement ride injuries over 20 years.
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Wenger remembered his friend and colleague as the confident professional with whom he'd worked in emergency rooms all over Knoxville — including the one where she died.
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An appendix to the plan lists spending targets for over 500 hundred initiatives, including 4.7 billion riyals to improve hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units.
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Everyday, emergency rooms and trauma center physicians and nurses across America work tirelessly to save the lives of patients who come to them in grave conditions.
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In such an attack, emergency rooms would be flooded with patients of all ages experiencing severe respiratory distress, extreme anxiety about their potential exposure, or both.
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But the disruption is sometimes creating headaches for city governments — and, in a way, for emergency rooms — as they grapple with how to regulate the scooters.
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Scanners that can handle very heavy people are manufactured, but one national survey found that at least 90 percent of emergency rooms did not have them.
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Out of more than 50 people admitted to local emergency rooms on Tuesday, 24 are still hospitalized, eight of them in serious condition, health officials said.
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Later that night, while Cleo is at the hospital, doctors and nurses murmur about armed individuals running into the hospital's emergency rooms to kill off protesters.
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Pain satisfaction scores dropped the Marion emergency room from the 58th percentile to the 14th among 1,100 emergency rooms nationwide that send out the same survey.
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A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine describes a seasonal injury that has sent almost 1,700 people to emergency rooms since 2002.
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Smith's team examined data from a nationally representative group of kids age 17 or younger who were treated at nearly 100 emergency rooms around the country.
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States have set up web pages with locations for coronavirus testing, which has mostly been taking place in hospital wards set apart from regular emergency rooms.
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Even severe flu seasons stress the nation's hospitals to the point of setting up tents in parking lots and keeping people for days in emergency rooms.
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First, since the policy has been in place, patients returning to a hospital are more likely to be cared for in emergency rooms and observation units.
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During the London 2012 Olympics, the British Health Protection Agency rolled out a network for monitoring emergency rooms and doctors' offices for cases of infectious diseases.
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The drug is also difficult to detect in patients who show up in emergency rooms unconscious, further complicating efforts to get dependable numbers on its impact.
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If the healthiest people don't show up in emergency rooms, that could mean that more resources are available to treat the sickest and most vulnerable patients.
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Summer is "trauma season," when emergency rooms see a rise in injuries, but a drug supply crisis has doctors scrambling to find alternatives to needed medications.
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In the current study, the biggest racial disparities in ambulance destinations happened in urban areas with multiple emergency rooms and hospitals in close proximity, researchers found.
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This is because prejudice significantly impacts black and Hispanic Americans, who are less likely to receive acute pain medication in emergency rooms according to recent research.
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Masks are thought to slow the spread of disease when they are worn by sick people in crowded places like emergency rooms, offices, subways and buses.
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Not only would HOPE improve health outcomes for Alzheimer's patients, it would also mitigate huge, unnecessary costs associated with preventable trips to hospitals and emergency rooms.
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Analysts say that increasing use of high deductible plans is helping rein in medical spending, in part by driving down the use of hospital emergency rooms.
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They are the leading cause of injury-related visits to emergency rooms and the primary cause of accidental deaths in Americans over the age of 65.
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Local fuel cell networks are assuring that electrical power will continue in emergency rooms and pharmacy refrigerators, data centers and gas stations in times of emergency.
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The rub, doctors and researchers say, is that the medical system — from front-line nurses to oncologists to emergency rooms — is too often caught off guard.
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Immigration and law enforcement officers are increasingly intervening at health care facilities, such as emergency rooms and maternity wards across the country, putting lives at risk.
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The Illinois Department of Public Health said at least 30 people statewide had been to emergency rooms for frostbite or hypothermia-related visits by Wednesday morning.
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There have been many stories about patients visiting in-network emergency rooms, only to be slammed with enormous bills from out-of-network doctors working there.
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In addition to sensors, we should ensure that we have a regularly exercised capability to compile data from hospital emergency rooms and detect attacks that way.
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The Illinois Department of Public Health said at least 353 people statewide had been to emergency rooms for frostbite or hypothermia-related visits by Wednesday morning.
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It's thought that too many people with chronic illnesses wait until they are truly ill before seeking care, often in emergency rooms, where it costs more.
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In the early 1990s, some 20,903 kids were showing up in emergency rooms every year with injuries, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics.
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He also lacked data for suicide attempts, although several US emergency rooms reported increases in self-harm among teens after the series streamed on Netflix, he said.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that in November and December 2015, holiday decorations caused 7913,000 injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms — as well as six fatalities.
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Now, the 20-second TV or radio spot might soon be replaced with ads sent directly to the phones of patients as they sit in emergency rooms.
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In total, I've had nearly $100,000 in bills reversed in the course of this emergency rooms reporting project, in states from California to Texas to New Jersey.
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UCLA researchers looked at visits to the emergency rooms at two Los Angeles–area hospitals and found that 249 people were admitted with injuries over a year.
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HCA on Friday raised its outlook for adjusted earnings in 2015, saying it admitted more patients to its hospitals and treated more people in its emergency rooms.
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Greenwood and his colleagues reviewed anonymous medical data on 63,642 men and 243,203 women who were seen in emergency rooms in Florida hospitals between 1991 to 2010.
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Since the country's economy began to collapse in 2014, emergency rooms have seen an alarming increase in the number of youths suffering from severe malnutrition and dehydration.
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Emergency rooms' prices are skyrocketing, and experts say that may be a side effect of the same factors that leave patients on the hook for unexpected bills.
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Now he's raised $5.2 million from investors to launch Vital to bring that consumer-focused mindset to emergency rooms and hospitals to help them organize patient flow.
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Many hospital emergency rooms—including some in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Denver, and New York—are also offering to start buprenorphine treatment immediately, typically for overdose victims.
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A National Institute of Health study also shows that women tend to wait 16 minutes longer than men when they are receiving pain medicine in emergency rooms.
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According to research by the International Association of Forensic Nurses , only 14 percent of emergency rooms in the U.S. provide services by Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners ( SANE ).
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More than 6 million people now visit the clinics annually, attracted by both their convenience and lower prices than what doctors' offices and emergency rooms would charge.
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And if their health problems become severe, they will wind up in hospital emergency rooms, where they will be treated at a higher cost, with taxpayer dollars.
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The program has been so successful at keeping addicts out of jail and away from emergency rooms that its supporters are seeking to expand it across Canada.
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CPSC said emergency rooms treated 2628,28503 table saw-related injuries in 22019, and 92 percent were likely related to the victim making contact with the saw blade.
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"If we can get in touch with the health secretary, maybe he can tell us where we can send patients, which emergency rooms are open," she said.
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While Minute Clinics certainly have not replaced emergency rooms yet, some experts suspect that more clinics are expected to emerge and might aim to fill that role.
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We are continually seeing emergency rooms, child care services, law enforcement, judges and morgues overwhelmed and lacking the resources, staff and space to respond effectively and efficiently.
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"Vaccine-preventable diseases belong in the history books, not in our emergency rooms," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said during a call with reporters Monday.
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C-130 aircraft are the Air Force's work horses, transporting cargo and troops on missions all over the world, as well as acting as skybound emergency rooms.
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A repeal of the act would mean the loss of millions of customers for insurance companies and uninsured people turning to hospital emergency rooms for basic care.
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The four-hour standard for Accident and Emergency rooms has not been met since July 2015 and the 62-day cancer standard for more than three years.
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Here's an NPR horror story about emergency rooms trying to cut the things off of swollen fingers with pictures you won't want to look at before bed .
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CPSC said emergency rooms treated 220006,2202 table saw-related injuries in 2628, and 28500 percent were likely related to the victim making contact with the saw blade.
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With slim to no options on the exchanges, these workers will be forced back into emergency rooms, or paying out of pocket for emergencies as they arise.
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A National Institute of Health study also shows that women tend to wait 16 minutes longer than men when they are receiving pain medicine in emergency rooms.
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The big questions are when the two sides will come to a new agreement, and how patients who use emergency rooms with these companies will be affected.
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No one tracks kitchen injuries versus other accidents, but Greenwald estimates that most emergency rooms see one or two pretty simple food-related injuries every few days.
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In a country where speaking out against immigration is still taboo for many, Scandinavians privately voice concerns about signs of crowded emergency rooms and larger school classes.
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Most are being treated in the emergency rooms, which would normally see 105 to 135 patients a day, but are now seeing 150 to 180 a day.
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It's not necessarily safe territory: Sanders could be asked why Italy, which has a national health service that makes emergency rooms free, has not prevented a pandemic.
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"We take our responsibilities to patient care extremely seriously, particularly in these challenging times when our emergency rooms are a critical point of entry," the hospital added.
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Since it was founded 50 years ago, MobileMed has prided itself on keeping its working poor and uninsured patients from resorting to emergency rooms for primary care.
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That is in large part because many in-network emergency rooms are staffed by doctors who work for private companies, which are not in the same networks.
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They are frustrated because there is little they can do for their anxious patients, other than refer them to stressed hospital emergency rooms for testing and treatment.
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And when women go into labor, they are more likely to end up at emergency rooms with no obstetric care or to deliver outside a hospital altogether.
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In return, by keeping Medicaid, uninsured, and undocumented patients out of expensive and overburdened emergency rooms, the state would save hundreds of thousands of dollars per doctor.
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Although often associated with older people, falls occur at any age and are the most common cause of injury seen in emergency rooms in the United States.
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Emergency rooms don't do a very good job coordinating longer-term care for patients who have attempted suicide — increasing the risk that those patients will try again.
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As of 22020, 27% of cocaine overdoses and 14% of stimulant overdoses treated in U.S. emergency rooms also involved an opioid, researchers report in the journal Addiction.
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NYU Langone Health, for example, had 270 flu patients, adults and children, in their emergency rooms and clinics in Manhattan and Brooklyn the week of December 29.
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My life, looking back, seemed to consist of scenes spliced together from emergency rooms, psychiatric wards, doctors' offices, pharmacy queues, holding cells, therapists' couches, street corners, pawnshops.
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My days and nights were kaleidoscopes of terror: weekslong hospitalizations, middle-of-the-night sprints to emergency rooms, daylong drug infusions at clinics, beeping monitors, doctors' verdicts.
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These benefits included significant improvements in overall health status, reductions in use of emergency rooms, higher rates of employment and reductions in the numbers of people uninsured.
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The researchers analyzed a decade of data on injuries treated in emergency rooms from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Many, such as the East Cooper Regional Medical Center, have had to cancel elective surgeries while trying to keep the emergency rooms open to accept emergency patients.
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Over a five year period, these individuals accounted for nearly 28,2200 arrests, 22016,403 days in jail, and 240,215 days in crisis units, state hospitals, and emergency rooms.
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It's also at the core of some other stories I'm currently working on, including an upcoming piece on California's efforts to offer addiction treatment in emergency rooms.
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And if the healthy adults who drop coverage turn out not to be as healthy as they thought, then they will show up in emergency rooms without insurance.
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Since 2015, the last year of data included in the new study, Hudgins said opioid prescription rates may be continuing to go down in emergency rooms, although slowly.
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Researchers found that between 2002 and 2010, an estimated 17,616 people showed up and emergency rooms in the United States due to trouser zip injuries to their genitals.
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And Massachusetts saw a roughly 3 percent drop, along with a public health campaign that has emphasized more addiction treatment, including in emergency rooms, and fewer painkiller prescriptions.
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Kids are going to the doctor's office and emergency rooms less often, and even using fewer prescription drugs — but overall health spending on children is still going up.
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The agency reports that at least five people died in 2018 from fireworks-related injuries, and around 9,100 people were treated for fireworks-related injuries in emergency rooms.
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In New York City's public hospital system, which runs several of the 2121 busiest emergency rooms in the country, security personnel carry nothing more than plastic wrist restraints.
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Other sectors flagged by HCCI in its report were prices for visits to emergency rooms, which rose by 10.5 percent in 2015, to an average price of $1,863.
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DENVER — Colorado's tourists aren't just buying weed now that it's legal — they're ending up in emergency rooms at rates far higher than residents, according to a new study.
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The researchers used data on 92,885 children under the age of 18 who were treated for amusement park type of injuries in emergency rooms, from 1990 to 2010.
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The report, published Tuesday in JAMA, looked through data of self-inflicted injuries from people aged 10 to 24, from 66 different emergency rooms between 2001 and 2015.
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Five percent of the bills were above $9,912, suggesting that emergency rooms and possibly drug manufacturers have wide leeway on what they charge for the exact same medications.
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As a result, Medicaid patients end up in emergency rooms — the most expensive way to care for a child with a fever or an adult with a rash.
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The study, funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, tracked 874 men and women around the US who admitted themselves to one of eight targeted emergency rooms.
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She and her co-authors looked at first-time nonfatal injury visits among people 10 to 24 years old at 66 hospital emergency rooms from 103 through 2015.
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The Kynikos president also mentioned UnitedHealthcare's terminated agreement with Envision Healthcare after UnitedHealthcare alleged that Envision had significantly over-billed patients for its services, particularly in emergency rooms.
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"Doctors are performing brain and abdominal surgeries ... on the floors of the emergency rooms, for lack of available operating theaters," said Pablo Marco, MSF's Middle East operations manager.
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Several made an economic argument, pointing out that the country already pays for care for undocumented immigrants — "usually through expensive emergency rooms," said Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts.
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In 1980, the number of rape reports by men was much lower: Male victims comprised only one to 10 percent seen in crisis centers, hospitals, and emergency rooms.
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The C.D.C.'s system lags because it relies on weekly reports from hundreds of doctors' offices and hospital emergency rooms about what symptoms they are seeing in patients.
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Envision has been under scrutiny for several months after The New York Times reported on large bills that have come from its physician-staffing business for emergency rooms.
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Across advanced nations, health care systems are amazingly successful at saving people in emergency rooms, but not so good at addressing chronic problems such as obesity and inactivity.
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Cepheid said in a statement it had received an emergency use authorization from the FDA for the test, which will be used primarily in hospitals and emergency rooms.
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So something like this where you're literally having thousands of extra patients in a city showing up in emergency rooms is going to overwhelm the system very quickly.
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The psychiatric ERs, staffed with nurses, social workers and psychiatrists, work to treat and release patients in under 10 hours, much as traditional emergency rooms handle physical ailments.
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A study last year found that the numbers of children and teens with suicidal thoughts who went to emergency rooms in the US doubled between 2007 and 2015.
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"You have a lot of otherwise healthy young people suddenly arriving with fast-developing pneumonia in emergency rooms — that will raise red flags in a hurry," he said.
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Researchers found that between 2002 and 2010, an estimated 17,616 people showed up in emergency rooms in the United States due to trouser zip injuries to their genitals.
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Hospital doors, especially emergency rooms, are open to everyone, and many of society's ills — domestic abuse, gang violence, family disputes and more — find their way to the hospital doorstep.
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The idea: Emergency rooms can hold patients against their will if doctors determine someone is in the grips of a psychiatric crisis that has impaired his or her judgment.
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A repeal of the act would mean the loss of millions of customers for insurance companies and an onslaught of uninsured people to hospital emergency rooms for basic care.
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The NEISS collects injury reports caused by consumer products from a sample of emergency rooms across the country, then uses that to come up with a rough national estimate.
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"They can cause increases to emergency rooms for all kinds of respiratory conditions and for cardiac conditions as well, including heart attacks and episodes of heart failure," she said.
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The number of children who were admitted to emergency rooms for unintentional marijuana intoxication increased by 22014% in France over an 229-year period, according to a new study.
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People say they know to wear sunscreen and protect their skin, but melanoma rates are rising and each year more than 28500,6900 people visit emergency rooms due to sunburns.
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But as the opioid epidemic has worsened, people suffering from serious addiction have not been able to find appropriate residential treatment and instead many wind up in emergency rooms.
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Hospitals should be allowed to ask for more reimbursement from Uncle Sam for the many non-insured and non-paying patients they often see in emergency rooms every day.
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Meanwhile, by forcing people without health care into emergency rooms, their plan would explode costs for our hospitals, raising premiums and out-of-pocket costs for virtually all Americans.
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The researchers also noted that in the states that had a decline in death rates, there was an increase in visits to the emergency rooms for non-fatal overdoses.
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The 1986 law compels hospitals with emergency rooms to care for anyone and everyone whose life is in imminent danger, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.
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In February, thousands of non-emergency and routine procedures were canceled to free up beds, but emergency rooms were still overwhelmed with 10s of thousands of people each day.
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Instead, they will either seek care from overloaded emergency rooms or simply go without necessary prescriptions, making them at risk of relapsing or even death due to their displacement.
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By slowing the rate of infection — and thus the rate of severe infections — we can avoid overwhelming our already overcrowded emergency rooms, overstressed hospitals and overworked health care providers.
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Health care workers are among the groups most at risk of contracting the virus, as sick people report to emergency rooms and are treated before their condition is known.
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But as people die unseen in hospital wards and emergency rooms, the emotional impact of the accelerating tragedy is less obvious than it would be during a natural disaster.
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Researchers examined data from 14 previously published studies of pain management in American emergency rooms (ERs) that altogether included 7,53 white patients, 1,538 Hispanic patients, and 3,125 black patients.
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Since recreational sales began in 2014, more people here are visiting emergency rooms for marijuana-related problems, and hospitals report higher rates of mental-health cases tied to marijuana.
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The vast system includes John Stroger Jr. Hospital in West Chicago, the inspiration for the TV show ER, which has one of the busiest emergency rooms in the country.
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In the emergency rooms of Dr. José María Vargas Hospital in Caracas, doctors scrambled to rotate critical patients on the few pieces of equipment connected to a backup generator.
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The single most dangerous product appeared to be nail polish remover, which was involved in about 163% of cosmetic-related injuries treated in emergency rooms during the study period.
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Sixteen cases have been confirmed in the District, Maryland and Virginia, but many more people have contacted their doctors and visited emergency rooms wondering whether they should be tested.
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Regardless of whom they serve, few have been spared the impact of the pandemic: A flood of sick and fearful New Yorkers has besieged emergency rooms across the city.
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Hospitals are also being battered as medical care is increasingly delivered outside a hospital's walls in outpatient settings like surgery centers, free-standing emergency rooms and urgent-care clinics.
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Despite planning for a surge in cases, routine procedures were canceled to free up beds, yet emergency rooms were still overwhelmed with tens of thousands of people each day.
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That made it useful to treat soldiers injured in the field and in hospital operating and emergency rooms, where quick treatment can be less costly than lengthier drug regimens.
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He added that New York is not solely dependent on the tests for monitoring outbreaks of the coronavirus, maintaining hourly reports of pneumonia and flu arrivals at emergency rooms.
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Otherwise, hospitals will find their emergency rooms flooded with so-called false positives — people who think they might be having a serious cardiac event but are actually perfectly healthy.
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In June 2012, a trickle of people began showing up in emergency rooms broiling with fever, complaining that their necks were stiff and that bright lights hurt their eyes.
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From the 300 emergency rooms sampled, the researchers tracked the number of children between 5 and 18 who received a diagnosis of suicidal ideation or suicide attempts each year.
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If long hours were the key to success, after all, people who hold down two jobs, or nurses on the night shift in emergency rooms, would be rolling in wealth.
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Emergency rooms are notoriously overburdened and understaffed, and they are the most expensive entry point into the health system, but several technologies aim to get ahead of the ambulance ride.
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Scooter-related injuries rose during the pilot period, but most injuries seen by emergency rooms across Multnomah County "were not severe enough to warrant emergency transport," the transportation bureau said.
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If you are in a rural area, limited to a narrow network of providers, or dependent on emergency rooms or clinics, you may have very limited options to shop around.
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While part of hospital was above ground, most of its operations -- including the intensive care unit and emergency rooms -- were kept underground as bombings remain a constant threat in Aleppo.
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Why it matters: Emergency rooms are collecting more money from private insurance plans, and at the same time they're also surprising patients with the news that their care wasn't covered.
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Prices to treat many of the same exact conditions in emergency rooms — where half of all care is delivered in the U.S. — can be orders of magnitude higher than telemedicine.
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Serious injuries also rose (as estimated by the National Safety Council) at about the same rate in 2202, to a stunning 2628 million people in emergency rooms or doctor's offices.
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Medical services in the Virgin Islands are still severely hobbled, with hundreds of staff members laid off from damaged hospitals, many types of specialty care unavailable, and emergency rooms overflowing.
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The study, published this month in the journal Pediatrics, looked at children under 18 treated in a nationally representative sample of about 100 hospital emergency rooms in the United States.
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"When you have emergency rooms flooded with patients, it makes it harder for us to attend to all the other issues," Dr. Celine Gounder said in a "Squawk Box" interview.
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But today, with a rapidly spreading viral pandemic that's stirring serious unease in American emergency rooms, it doesn't really matter if a virus meets biologists' definitions of dead or alive.
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The company is working with the Trump administration to ensure the first cartridges used to perform the tests are sent to hospital emergency rooms, urgent-care clinics,, and doctors' offices.
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And there also wasn't any difference in pain-related visits to emergency rooms or requests for opioid prescriptions after discharge based on whether children were sent home with opioid prescriptions.
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Some may unfurl large tents as triage centers outside emergency rooms — patients with severe respiratory symptoms would be directed one way, those with broken bones and non-coronavirus symptoms another.
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The test, created by Abbott Laboratories, is highly portable and can be used in a wide variety of settings, from hospital emergency rooms to urgent care clinics to physicians' offices.
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"When you have emergency rooms flooded with patients, it makes it harder for us to attend to all the other issues," Dr. Celine Gounder said in a "Squawk Box" interview.
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Irvin suspects that implicit biases are more likely to be on display in fast-paced situations like emergency rooms, where healthcare providers don't have time to reflect on possible biases.
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An expansion of Medicaid to cover undocumented immigrants up to age 26, alleviating pressure on public hospitals and emergency rooms saddled with millions of dollars each year in uncompensated care.
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The smudgy, grimy urban landscape — emergency rooms, fast-food restaurants, blocks of modest, over-mortgaged, squeezed-together houses — is shot (by Sean Price Williams) with a fastidious avoidance of prettiness.
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Had he included outpatients who left emergency rooms against medical advice and those who simply walked out and never actually signed a form, the total would have been much higher.
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And the insurers argue hospitals have a responsibility to make sure the outside doctors they use to staff their emergency rooms sign contracts with the same health plans they do.
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In addition, fewer children were absent from school or went to emergency rooms with severe asthma, and doctors saw fewer hospitalizations, clinic visits, premature births, heart attacks and deaths overall.
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The researchers also used publicly available data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine trends in phone calls to poison control and visits to emergency rooms.
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Levels of illness, based on outpatient visits and visits to emergency rooms, are "now as high as we observed at the peak of the 23 H1N1 pandemic season," Schuchat said.
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Today, ketamine is used in pediatric emergency rooms, for example in the case of a fracture, because it's safer than other sedatives, said CNN's Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, a pediatrician.
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Without access to primary care, these patients will often end up in emergency rooms with urgent concerns, which can be tens of thousands of dollars in costs for their employers.
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Data from the non-profit Health Care Cost Institute shows that the average price at other San Francisco-area emergency rooms is $2,000 — less than half the city hospital's price.
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In Philadelphia, for example, inmates once could get Suboxone only if they were already on it, and emergency rooms, accustomed to "treat 'em and street 'em," didn't give out Suboxone.
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After analyzing data from 58 emergency rooms, they estimated how frequently the problem occurred on a national level and then compared that data to their estimates for the 2005-103 period.
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Reviewing injury data from two Los Angeles-area emergency rooms over the course of a year, researchers found that patients whose injuries involved these scooters outnumbered patients with bicycle-related emergencies.
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A group of UCLA scientists found that at least 249 people visited two Southern California emergency rooms with broken bones, bumps, bruises, and head injuries — including brain bleeds — from scooter accidents.
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The New England Journal of Medicine last week described four patients ages 20163 to 37 who showed up in emergency rooms in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2017 unable to form new memories.
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Patients may be more likely to give top '5-star' ratings to hospitals that don't offer many commonly sought-after services like emergency rooms and intensive care units, the study found.
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They believe all Americans have a God-given right to refuse to get health coverage and throw themselves on the mercies of extremely expensive hospital emergency rooms if they get ill.
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Researchers from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, studied Consumer Product Safety Commission information on youngsters who were taken to emergency rooms for amusement ride injuries during a 280-year period.
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It is a way to prevent free-riders from passing on the costs of not being covered to others, for example by clogging up emergency rooms or by spreading contagious diseases.
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This database, which is operated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, tracks injuries related to sports, recreation and consumer products that have been treated in emergency rooms across the country.
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Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO), which would also look to put a stop to big bills from out-of-network providers working at in-network emergency rooms.
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But I've also had co-workers pick me up from emergency rooms late at night and offer to make me meals when I was living thousands of miles from my partner.
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The NHS also thinks the service could reduce patient demand for care: Over26 million patientscame through NHS emergency rooms between April 2250 and Mach 2018, a 42% increase over 2006 figures.
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Ms. Garcia said that despite holding steady jobs for the past decade, she has never received health insurance and instead relies on emergency rooms when she needs to see a doctor.
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Supporters of the measure, which include a coalition of hospitals and medical clinics, say the money will also help prevent local hospitals and emergency rooms from closing or cutting back services.
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Our inability to share and process health records is crippling the quality of care in this country, causing doctors to approach waiting rooms, emergency rooms, and even the operation table blind.
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"We had data only from emergency rooms" and not visits to eye doctors, urgent care facilities or general practitioners, he said, which most likely would have doubled or tripled the totals.
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From 1990 to 2015, nearly 803,000 children younger than 6 were treated in emergency rooms for window-blind related injuries, according to the research, published Monday in the medical journal Pediatrics.
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NYC's emergency rooms are serving twice as many patients as usual and their ICUs are three times as large as usual, Dr. Mitchell Katz, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals said Sunday.
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"Most physicians have never seen this level of angst and anxiety in their careers," said Dr. Stephen Anderson, a 35-year veteran of emergency rooms in a suburb south of Seattle.
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Researchers studied 971 children 3 months to 4 years old who arrived in emergency rooms with the typical symptoms of gastroenteritis — nausea, vomiting, watery diarrhea and dehydration, stomach pain and cramps.
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Here's what you need to know: Thousands of injuries happen every year In 2016, emergency rooms saw 30,900 injuries associated with amusement attractions nationwide, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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The company has been expanding its customer-base to include healthcare providers, and the deal could help it add acute care facilities such as hospices, emergency rooms, hospitals and ambulatory centers.
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The result: families pushed to the edge of desperation, an overwhelmed criminal justice system, emergency rooms that struggle to respond, and a bright future dimmed for far too many young Americans.
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Despite improvements since standards became mandatory, Smith and his co-authors continue to see roughly 2,000 children a year treated in emergency rooms, often for serious injuries such as skull fractures.
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On Thursday, the Wisconsin Division of Public Health reported that it had seen its first case in the state and was warning doctors in emergency rooms to be watchful for more.
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Although suicide ranks just after trauma as a leading cause of death, there are many high-level pediatric trauma centers but very few dedicated pediatric psychiatry emergency rooms, Dr. Gerson said.
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Like many other regions of the world, Japan has been hit by record temperatures in a two-week heatwave, with more than 80 people dying and thousands rushed to emergency rooms.
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Hennum at Dignity Health St. Rose-Dominican told CNBC these facilities are not meant to replace larger hospitals or emergency rooms but can provide a kinder, more personalized level of care.
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For the last ten days, Dr. Calvin D. Sun has been working in emergency rooms throughout New York City and treating patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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The health service has reported a huge increase in the number of people referred to emergency rooms in the first two hours of the new year because of excessive alcohol consumption.
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Emergency rooms argue that these fees are necessary to keep their doors open, so they can be ready 24/7 to treat anything from a sore back to a gunshot wound.
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Europe's "Pokemon Go" fanatics have been warned against hunting for the creatures in locations including rail tracks and hospital emergency rooms and — just in case their hunts cause an accident — offered insurance.
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham has published research showing that high heel-related injuries in the US had doubled over the preceding decade, with emergency rooms treating 123,355 people for them.
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Rather than rely on women to act as test dummies for inexperienced doctors, though, it might be better to just stock our emergency rooms and health care centers with more women doctors.
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Only 2950% of those coming to hospital emergency rooms in December were treated within the desired time of four hours, the worst rate ever recorded and well below the NHS's 22015% target.
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According to the Justice Department, the Triage devices were frequently relied on by doctors working in emergency rooms to quickly diagnose serious conditions including acute coronary syndromes, heart failure and drug overdose.
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Viewers will get a behind-the-scenes look at the tireless work and care rescuers offer to each sea turtle at one of the busiest sea turtle emergency rooms in the country.
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The White House has described the policy as a health care system safeguard that would prevent immigrants from enrolling in Medicaid or going to emergency rooms with no insurance, the Journal reported.
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Treatment is more or less free, but the facilities are Dickensian in comparison with the Care hospital — teeming emergency rooms, with hundreds of parents and children pushing for a single doctor's attention.
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Holt said the country might want to follow in the footsteps of Oregon, where an online registry allows people to record their wishes and allows emergency rooms to quickly find those requests.
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I was able to catch the ladder just in time to avoid being one of the thousands of people who wind up in emergency rooms with embedded ornaments or garland strangulation injuries.
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And on Tuesday, he announced that patients covered by state insurance plans would not be responsible for co-payments associated with coronavirus testing in emergency rooms, urgent care centers or doctors' offices.
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Both sites are designed to enable people to assess the severity of their symptoms and help prevent emergency rooms and hospitals from being overwhelmed by patients who may not need immediate care.
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While the care provided in emergency rooms is particularly expensive, supporters of programs like E.D. Bridge say E.R.s are the best place for stabilizing any dangerously out-of-control condition, including addiction.
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However while the overall number of people ending up in the emergency rooms around the world has risen, the figures for the UK dropped from 227% last year to 22% this year.
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Sniffing isopropyl alcohol can also help control chemotherapy nausea, but until now it has not been tested against Zofran for emergency rooms patients, who have a wide variety of causes of nausea.
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CVS could offer more preventive care services and screenings in its clinics, such as enabling patients with diabetes to monitor blood sugar levels, avoiding higher cost visits to doctors or emergency rooms.
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"Many of us have trained for disasters, like Ebola and hurricanes," said Dr. Adam Brown, the president of emergency medicine for Envision Healthcare, the largest provider of contract physicians to emergency rooms.
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Researchers estimated that almost 03,20 children under 216 years old were treated at U.S. emergency rooms for cosmetic-related-injuries from 22019 to 2016, roughly equivalent to one case every two hours.
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I kept in touch as she lost custody of her son and couch-surfed through slumlord apartments, then as she toggled between psychiatric hospitals, jail cells, shelters, emergency rooms and the streets.
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The attack caused some hospitals to stop accepting patients, doctor's offices to shut down, emergency rooms to divert patients, and critical operations to be canceled as a decentralized system struggled to cope.
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In January alone, 2 million people went to emergency rooms in England, with more than a quarter of them admitted, and 15% of them waited longer than four hours to be seen.
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Fomepizole, a methanol antidote often used in American emergency rooms, is not certified in Russia, and ethanol, which affects the metabolism of the poison, is only randomly available in its intravenous form.
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While sheriffs under contract with the DMH receive some training in how to handle mental health crises, the DMH has no say in how emergency rooms communicate patient treatment guidelines with police.
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There was no authoritative list of people who had been in the World Trade Center, and, despite the scope of the attacks, a surge of survivors at hospital emergency rooms never materialized.
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That can hold down premiums for everyone, as emergency room visits are expensive — and, as the last story in this series revealed, prices in emergency rooms have increased rapidly in recent years.
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The small, colorful packets of detergent were responsible for more than a quarter of cases of 2911- and 22-year-olds admitted to emergency rooms with chemical eye burns in 73, researchers found.
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Routine access to good primary care and medications is critically important because it keeps chronically ill patients out of hospitals and emergency rooms, which are more expensive than routine care, according to Thorpe.
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An appendix to the plans listed spending targets for hundreds of initiatives aimed at boosting both economic and social goals, including 4.7 billion riyals on improving hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units.
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Julio Castro, a doctor and member of a non-governmental organization called Doctors For Health, tweeted that a total of 17 people had died during the blackout, including nine deaths in emergency rooms.
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We now have about 1,300 bills from all 50 states and Washington, DC. One issue I saw cropping up is out-of-network billing from physicians who work at in-network emergency rooms.
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Emergency rooms in hospitals such as Grady were a last resort for uninsured patients who, in many cases, struggled with undiagnosed cancer, high-risk pregnancies, heart disease, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases.
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Previous research has found minorities have less access to specialists and longer wait times in emergency rooms, as well as less access to recommended treatments for preventing stroke, Cruz-Flores said by email.
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Giving patients access to drugs that they wouldn't otherwise be able to afford, could keep them out of emergency rooms and intensive care units — which can cost taxpayers thousands of dollars a day.
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" Firsthand experience suggests to Dr. Mark Pearlmutter, an emergency physician in Boston, that the most common mental health problems in emergency rooms are dual diagnoses, such as "substance abuse and depression, for example.
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The result has been a disgraceful denial of access to a critical level of care, with many patients spending days in hospital emergency rooms as clinical staff search for a hospital inpatient bed.
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Driving that change are three key factors: First is the need to triage the increasing numbers of Americans seeking care in emergency rooms and clinics to get their fevers and coughs checked out.
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Our hospital meets several times daily to review if there are enough beds in emergency rooms and ICUs, whether protective equipment like masks, gowns, and gloves are available, and to discuss potential exposures.
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Prioritarianism, or the "rule of rescue," treats the sickest people first; emergency rooms operate on this principle, for example, choosing to treat the gunshot wound victim before the person with a broken leg.
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A study of emergency rooms in eight different US states found that while 221 percent of attempts with firearms resulted in death, only 22011 percent of drug/poison ingestion attempts resulted in death.
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The company has gained business from hospitals that have come to rely on outside contractors to increase the efficiency of some areas, like emergency rooms, that have been financial drains in the past.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission last year estimated that in 2016 there were 14,700 holiday decorating-related injuries treated in emergency rooms, or an average of 240 per day during November and December.
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Since many of those newly uninsured people would still get sick and injured, they would receive care at emergency rooms and public hospitals, with the federal, state and local governments bearing that cost.
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Naloxone, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1971, has been designated an "essential medicine" by the World Health Organization and has been used for decades in emergency rooms, ambulances and clinics.
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Prior to any large-scale arrests, federal authorities contact the state's public health officials and alert them that there could be an influx of new patients seeking help for withdrawal at emergency rooms.
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Each team, according to the city, saw 38 vulnerable clients per night, and as of last count, the outreach workers brought 132 individuals into traditional locations and emergency rooms by the storm's end.
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And specifically regarding emergency rooms and doctors' offices in the US, a recent study in JAMA estimated that 219 percent of antibiotics doled out were unnecessary, amounting to 266 million prescriptions every year.
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Private equity has developed a voracious appetite for health care providers — mainly emergency rooms, ambulances and other areas where, if you need them, you're in no position to shop for a better deal.
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And high out-of-pocket costs, absurd hospital billing practices and ever-rising prescription drug prices have forced too many people to skip crucial treatments, avoid emergency rooms and ration life-sustaining medications.
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Over the 2000-year study period there were more than 78,000 visits to emergency rooms and outpatient clinics, with 15% of ER visits and 3% of outpatient clinic visits resulting in an opioid prescription.
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The rate of opioid prescription in emergency rooms decreased by approximately 4% from 2005 to 93, but did not change significantly in outpatient clinics, according to the results published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics.
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Based on 42,585 cases, the team estimates that four out of every 1,000 people in the United States went to emergency rooms each year because of a drug reaction during the 2013-14 period.
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According to the International Association of Forensic Nurses, fewer than 14 percent of emergency rooms in the United States provide trained medical professionals — known as sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) — to administer the tests.
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In a study published in JAMA this year, researchers estimated the extent of antibiotic overprescription in the US: They found 30 percent of antibiotics doled out in emergency rooms and doctors' offices are unnecessary.
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"We're already seeing an increase in patients at emergency rooms across our system," Alex Loessin, spokesperson for Memorial Hermann Health System, which operates 275 locations in the Houston area, told BuzzFeed News on Thursday.
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"Medical personnel on site are available 24/7 to provide medical diagnosis and treatment, address infectious disease issues, and coordinate referral to and follow up from local health system/emergency rooms," the spokeswoman said.
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Laszewski, who is an Obamacare opponent, said that would lead to hospitals dealing with many more uninsured people coming through their emergency rooms, and having to eat the costs of covering those nonpaying patients.
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France&aposs health minister says only about 4 percent of the visits to hospital emergency rooms across the country are linked to the current heat wave, which the government considers a relatively low level.
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Just two-fifths of the retail clinic visits were by people who were substituting treatment by the clinic for what would have been more pricier visits to their doctor's office or hospital emergency rooms.
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As we previously reported, a study recently published by the University of Missouri School of Medicine found that almost 1,700 people have been sent to emergency rooms since 2002 for grill-brush-related injuries.
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They're cultivating relationships between primary care physicians, emergency rooms, and cancer centers as, Ford said, they know minorities are less likely to be referred to specialists and more likely to use the emergency room.
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CVS could offer more preventive care services and screenings to Aetna customers in its clinics, such as enabling diabetes patients to monitor blood sugar levels, avoiding higher cost visits to doctors or emergency rooms.
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As part of its own efforts to revamp the industry, CVS is hoping to convince more people to use its walk-in clinics and keep them out of more expensive places like emergency rooms.
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An average of 50 children a day end up in hospital emergency rooms because of stroller or baby carrier accidents, and it appears far more of them are suffering brain injuries than previously believed.
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That's something that's already happening, with concierge emergency rooms, private medical groups charging annual fees of up to $80,000, and more organizations like Tia Clinic, a members-only doctor's office for women in Manhattan.
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He added that New York is also keeping hourly reports of pneumonia and flu arrivals in emergency rooms, and a sudden increase in those patients would trigger a response before test results were prepared.
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The study, of more than 580,000 heart patients admitted over two decades to emergency rooms in Florida, found that mortality rates for both women and men were lower when the treating physician was female.
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Working with state and federal officials, hospitals have repeatedly expanded the portions of their buildings equipped to handle patients who had stayed home until worsening fevers and difficulty breathing forced them into emergency rooms.
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Despite how strangulation may be portrayed on TV dramas, where victims immediately have telling dark marks around their throats, it often only leaves small physical signs, and many emergency rooms don't screen for strangulation.
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By the numbers: A report this week from the VA's Office of Inspector General found that many veterans' claims were improperly denied after they sought care in the emergency rooms of non-VA facilities.
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But, with the mounting cases of COVID-19 across America, albuterol has also been one of the first lines of defense in emergency rooms to combat one of the virus' main symptoms ... respiratory distress.
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Hospitals across the U.S. have been preparing for the virus to spread further throughout the country, worrying a larger outbreak could overwhelm emergency rooms and quickly cause supply shortages of some crucial medical supplies.
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Of the 2600 million Americans who enter emergency rooms complaining of chest pain each year, just 210% have a life-threatening condition like a heart attack, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Removing a foreign body from a child's nose or ear is a fairly common procedure in emergency rooms, with the variety of objects removed from noses limited only by the size of the nostrils.
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According to data from the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, patients who are auto-assigned use less outpatient care, and if they remain uninsured for lengthy periods, they eventually end up in emergency rooms.
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Recalling reports of triage tents being set up outside emergency rooms in some American hospitals, Webby said, "when we hit these bad seasons, it highlights all the shortfalls that are there" in health systems.
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As for the 52,000 children who still got into medicines and required treatment at emergency rooms in 2017 -- an average of 142 per day or one child every 10 minutes -- parents provided key insights.
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Health officials warn that hospitals, where emergency rooms are required by law to treat everyone regardless of ability to pay, may shutter as patients flood in for routine care, like prescriptions for insulin refills.
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What that means, today, is that many undocumented immigrants rely on emergency rooms -- which are required under federal law to screen and stabilize all patients who come through their doors -- when they get sick.
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Veterans would also be allowed access to a system of proposed walk-in clinics, which would serve as a bridge between V.A. emergency rooms and private providers, and would require co-pays for treatment.
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Giacalone, the former commander of the Bronx Cold Case Squad, warns that emergency rooms and ambulance crews could start seeing an uptick in chemical burns, along with things like missing digits, and unexplainable illnesses.
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The researchers behind the AAP presentation used data collected between 234 and 210 by the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, which collects data on injuries caused by consumer products that sent people to emergency rooms.
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" They included a stat from the CDC—that 129,000 pedestrians are treated in emergency rooms for car crash-related injuries in the U.S. every year—stating that "the true danger on our roads is cars.
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While there's no shortage of startups connecting patients to doctors on demand, Call9 specializes in specifically reducing unnecessary visits to emergency rooms by those who call 93 most frequently, which is people in nursing homes.
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Some experts think that the rise in the number of opioid overdoses in teens may play a part, especially since some emergency rooms may interpret teen overdose deaths as suicides, as one psychologist told CNN.
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"Our colleagues in emergency rooms are not particularly well-trained to be able to help people in a situation like this," says Margaret Jarvis, the medical director of a residential addiction treatment center in Pennsylvania.
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They testified that federal law already requires emergency rooms to care for any patient who shows up at one, and 911 ambulance services respond to all emergencies regardless of where the call is coming from.
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For many such immediate health-care needs, local retail clinics providing basic services on a walk-in basis are an alternative source of quality care at a cost vastly lower than possible for emergency rooms.
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This not only benefits air quality, but also the health of all communities, estimating the yearly prevention of 11,000 premature deaths, nearly 5,000 heat attacks, 130,85033 asthma attacks, and 5,700 hospital and emergency rooms visits.
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"It's a patient safety issue," said Dr. James Augustine, chairman of the national clinical governance board for US Acute Care Solutions, a physician group that provides staffing for emergency rooms and hospitals across the country.
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According to the Venezuelan Health Observatory, 76 percent of the country's hospitals are experiencing shortages of medicine, and less than 10 percent of its operating theaters, emergency rooms, and intensive care units are fully operational.
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Pediatric facilities are often better than general emergency rooms or urgent cares, because they're fairly empty and often free of coronavirus patients; kids can and do get coronavirus, but their symptoms tend to be mild.
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Investor Ryan Sarver of Redpoint Ventures and friends are running an #SFHospitalMeals program where people can donate $1,000 to buy meals from local restaurants for hospital staff of SF's emergency rooms and intensive care units.
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First responders and emergency rooms lack adequate supplies of naloxone, the medication that can save someone who has overdosed on opioids, particularly fentanyl, a drug so toxic it requires multiple doses of naloxone to reverse.
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DMH began footing the bill for sheriff supervision of mental health patients who were involuntarily committed to emergency rooms, including assigning sheriffs to wait with patients in ERs and provide transportation to hospitals with space.
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The team of researchers from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in New Jersey pored over data from a backlog of head and neck injuries reported at emergency rooms in the U.S. from 1998 to 2017.
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This is left up to a hospital's billing staff, meaning that if two patients receive identical care in different emergency rooms, one may be coded as a level 3 and another as a level 4.
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If emergency rooms and physicians who catch people "doctor shopping" began to simply prescribe a dose of methadone or buprenorphine on the spot, there would be far less incentive to fake pain to get drugs.
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Repeal of the Affordable Care Act would increase hospitals' "bad debts" as fewer insured means less demand for health care services, and more people entering hospital emergency rooms without the means to pay the subsequent bills.
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Many Californians, in particular, have deep roots in America, and may chafe at the crowded emergency rooms, long lines in government offices, and other ills which they blame on illegal immigrants from Mexico or Central America.
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Only about half of suicidal patients that wind up in American emergency rooms are asked about their access to firearms, despite national guidelines urging them to do so, and, well, the general obviousness of the question.
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A few months later, North Carolina health officials issued their own warning after local emergency rooms saw some 30 people come in suffering from hallucinations, loss of consciousness, and heart irregularities linked to vaping CBD products.
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As the Republican-led Congress and the Trump administration discuss a replacement for the ACA, many Hispanic leaders are worried their communities could be forced out of coverage and back into emergency rooms for primary care.
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Patients with serious illness, like Blaine, who receive palliative care have fewer trips to emergency rooms, spend less time in the hospital, have fewer hospital readmissions, and generally experience a better quality of life during treatment.
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NEW DELHI — A toxic, throat-burning cloud has settled over India's capital, swallowing national monuments, sending people to emergency rooms and prompting officials on Friday to declare a public health emergency and close schools for days.
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When badly injured young children are brought into the emergency rooms in eastern Aleppo hospitals, the doctors have no choice but to triage because they don't have enough medical equipment to help all of the children.
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This includes poor communication among doctors' offices, emergency rooms, and hospitals, which may result in duplicated lab tests, medical imaging and medications, poor patient follow-up, and, ultimately higher costs, reduced accessibility, and poor patient outcomes.
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Four in 10 privately insured patients faced surprise medical bills after visiting emergency rooms or getting admitted to hospitals in 2016, according to a new study published Monday in the American Medical Association's internal medicine journal.
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More patients go to emergency rooms in the US after falling than from any other form of mishap, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly triple the number injured by car accidents.
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In Colorado, after the legalization of recreational marijuana, the number of visits to emergency rooms by children under 10 for marijuana-related reasons doubled; a third of those children needed care in an intensive care unit.
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In Baltimore, the health commissioner, Dr. Leana Wen, uses a need-based algorithm to decide which emergency rooms, needle-exchange vans, E.M.T.s and opioid outreach workers receive the city's limited supply of naloxone — and which don't.
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Almost five million people go to emergency rooms annually in the United States for severe nausea and vomiting, and it is commonly treated with oral ondansetron (Zofran), a drug used to control the nausea of chemotherapy.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were about 2.8 million visits to emergency rooms for traumatic brain injury-related conditions in 2013, the most recent year for which the numbers were available.
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As a per diem emergentologist who fills in shifts left empty by the increasing number of doctors calling out sick, Sun has the unique perspective of working in emergency rooms throughout the New York City area.
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By Denise Lu Where local emergency rooms are close at hand, Border Patrol agents tend to err on the side of caution, taking their charges for costly and sometimes unnecessary medical evaluations, several health providers said.
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Dayton is also investing heavily in peer support — training people who are far enough along in their recovery to work as coaches or mentors for others who are trying to stop using, including in emergency rooms.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that 14,700 people end up in hospital emergency rooms each year from holiday-related decorating accidents, and too-dry Christmas trees cause almost $16 million in fire damage each year.
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Saifan's experience isn't an anomaly: A new Vox analysis reveals that emergency rooms all across the country are increasingly using these higher-intensity codes, and that the price of these codes has increased sharply since 2009.
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"Most patients with health coverage go to in-network emergency rooms and rightly expect to be treated by in-network doctors," said Cooper, assistant professor of public health and economics at the Yale School of Public Health.
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"While I clearly have concerns about the expansion's long-term costs, it has strengthened our Native health system and reduced the number of uninsured that are coming into our emergency rooms," she told the New York Times.
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HIP 2.0 members who contribute to their health care costs are more likely to seek preventative care, less likely to visit emergency rooms, and more likely to report high levels of satisfaction than those who do not.
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African Americans are significantly less likely to be prescribed opioids to treat pain than whites, and this disparity persists even when the numbers are adjusted for socio-economic variables such as income, and even in emergency rooms.
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Indeed, in a spate of cases officials think is separate from the Illinois-focused outbreak, dozens of people were hospitalized or visited emergency rooms in New York City in recent days due to suspected synthetic marijuana use.
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That left many anxious people with mild symptoms running a never-ending gantlet: primary care doctors referred them to state public health officials, who referred them to emergency rooms, who referred them back to primary care doctors.
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"The reality is that what we're seeing right now in our emergency rooms is dire," said Dr. Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.
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Last year's study found that women are two to three times more likely to end up in emergency rooms having taken ecstasy, compared to men, possibly because of the way the drug interacts with the body's hormones.
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Officials said they expected to test 150 people a day at each of the centers, which were created to ensure that New Yorkers with moderate to severe symptoms had access to tests without going to emergency rooms.
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Just as important, children of all ages are especially good at spreading respiratory viruses, which puts adults who work in schools as well as health workers in emergency rooms and hospitals at risk if schools remain open.
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" If patients being discharged from emergency rooms had access to say a seven-day supply of a medication-assisted treatment like buprenorphine, he said, "I mean that's the type of thing that really could move mountains here.
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This was achieved through measures like increasing the number of prescribers, expanding prescribing in emergency rooms and other non-traditional settings, educating the public about the importance of medication and, yes, banning prior authorization for initial supplies.
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In 1994, California's governor, Pete Wilson, whose approval rating had dropped as low as fifteen per cent, tied his reëlection campaign to a ballot initiative that sought to bar undocumented immigrants from emergency rooms and public schools.
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While much of the ire has been directed at how riders leave hundreds of the scooters strewn about sidewalks and streets like abandoned flotsam, there's another scourge: Emergency rooms are taking in lots of people with scooter injuries.
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The H3N2 flu virus (Image: AP/CDC)A flu strain called H3N2 has sent thousands to emergency rooms in California—so many that hospitals are erecting tents to accommodate the all the extra patients, reports the LA Times.
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She says she's worried about her family -- about the spots they could lose in college, about extra time they could be stuck waiting in emergency rooms, about the ways crime could go up and terrorists could slip in.
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An extensive cyberattack struck computers across a wide swath of Europe and Asia on Friday, and strained the public health system in Britain, where doctors were blocked from patient files and emergency rooms were forced to divert patients.
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Watch More From Tonic: It's an opportunity that's being missed in emergency rooms everywhere, says Andrew Kolodny, the co-director of Opioid Policy Research at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University outside Boston.
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Amazon, Berkshire, and JP Morgan — like Kaiser Permanente did before — will need to develop a primary care based medical system and attempt to limit unnecessary visits to inflated specialists and emergency rooms that increase costs and compromise quality.
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While the study showed that an average of 17,187 children each year end up in hospital emergency rooms because of stroller and carrier injuries, overall injury rates associated with these accidents declined over the 21-year period studied.
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On a regular day, it's possible for an efficient system to keep emergency rooms stocked, but during a disaster – when workers are absent, transportation is slowed and production abroad is potentially knocked out – Americans are left incredibly vulnerable.
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But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt argues that pressures on the N.H.S. are increasing not because of a lack of funding but partly because people are going to emergency rooms when they have bad colds or other minor afflictions.
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The health care providers I spoke with said that at the same time, they may not be aware of such injuries because parents may be delaying trips to emergency rooms or doctor's offices until they absolutely must go.
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It's a simple idea: A tidal wave of sudden cases in just a few weeks will swamp emergency rooms, but the same number of cases spread over months will test the surge capacity of hospitals without overwhelming them.
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The two largest financial backers of Doctor Patient Unity are TeamHealth and Envision Healthcare, private-equity-backed companies that own physician practices and staff emergency rooms around the country, according to Greg Blair, a spokesman for the group.
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At least nine of Vermont's 14 emergency rooms, including six of its eight hospitals serving rural populations, have been cited by national regulators over the past five years for improperly calling police to help with mental health patients.
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Emergency rooms are saturated, first responders are stretched thin, courtrooms are flooded, the workforce is dwindling, and—due to the increasing prevalence of fentanyl—even people unknowingly exposed to opioids are at risk of harm or even death.
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The study tracked about 375,000 Medicare patients with a similar range of complaints in several thousand hospital emergency rooms from 2008 to 2011, as well as the frequency of opioid prescriptions written by the doctors who treated them.
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In the long run, he said, the group will analyze utilization rates and see how they correlate to higher health outcomes, such as lower hospitalization rates, fewer visits to emergency rooms and higher rates of adherence to medications.
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According to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in 20143, emergency rooms saw 30,000 cases of people who had diagnoses of psychosis and marijuana-use disorder — the medical term for abuse or dependence on the drug.
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The approach, known as Housing First, has been independently vetted and declared a success, because it is far more cost-effective to provide housing than having the homeless population drift through shelters, jails, emergency rooms, and the streets.
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She hopes a spot on the FDA program will see Halo approved within a year as an alternative to opioids, which are currently used to treat an estimated 50 percent of patients who come to emergency rooms with migraines.
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From 2006 to 2014, handgun-related injuries sent 190,396 people to emergency rooms in the U.S. — and that number excludes those who died before they could go to the hospital and incidents involving people who never sought medical help.
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From 5003 to 2014, handgun-related injuries sent 190,396 people to emergency rooms in the U.S. — and that number excludes those who died before they could go to the hospital, and incidents involving people who never sought medical help.
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In general, emergency rooms and community health centers are supposed to offer health care regardless of immigration status, and a government-issued photo ID should not be required to get medical treatment, according to the National Immigration Law Center.
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Data collected in 16 states across the country show some emergency rooms experienced as high as a 109% increase (Wisconsin) in overdoses between July 2016 and September 2017 while others — including Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island — reported declines.
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Murkowski said that although she was concerned about the long-term cost of the expanded Medicaid program, she also recognized that it has strengthened Alaska's Native health care system and reduced the number of uninsured people visiting emergency rooms.
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The information is used to predict patients' health risks and costs in eight areas, including how often they are likely to visit emergency rooms, their total cost, their pharmacy costs, their motivation to stay healthy and their stress levels.
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They have set up a special liaison program with hospitals and emergency rooms to monitor heat-related illnesses and mortality, Dr. Kaiser said, which may explain why the number of deaths seems high compared to elsewhere in the nation.
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The Trump administration is struggling to win back the confidence of hospital leaders after three years of pitched battles, with the industry pushing for urgent help from the White House as the coronavirus crisis begins to swamp emergency rooms.
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WASHINGTON — The new front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are emergency rooms, where hospitals are desperately readying for repeats of scenes of overwhelmed wards in Wuhan, China, Milan, and Tehran, as the outbreak crests this month in the USA.
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Governments that did not respond forcefully and early to the outbreak have seen emergency rooms and intensive-care units crushed with patients who require around-the-clock care, outstripping resources and leading doctors to triage life-or-death decisions.
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A sobering report this month in the journal Pediatrics provides a detailed look at the devastating toll that gunfire has had specifically on America's children: a weekly average of 25 of them killed and 111 sent to emergency rooms.
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Hoylman cited a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association earlier this year, which found that the number of children and teenagers treated in American emergency rooms for suicide attempts nearly doubled between 2007 and 2015.
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In one case from late September last year, 28503,22020 people in Wyoming, one-tenth of the state's population, were suddenly told that local emergency rooms could no longer accept them; they had to travel to hospitals 150 miles away.
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The committee is investigating private equity firms, including Blackstone, that own doctor staffing companies, blaming them for sending massive "surprise" bills to patients when they get care at emergency rooms or other locations from doctors outside their insurance networks.
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From experience, we can predict with certainty that the proposed $2900 billion reduction in federal Medicaid support will drive our residents back to high cost providers such as emergency rooms, homeless shelters and jails — or worse, the county morgue.
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Housing and poverty advocates have long said it might be cheaper for states to pay for housing in lieu of simply incarcerating the homeless or seeing them repeatedly land in emergency rooms, another place where the poor seek shelter.
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But even as they circle the wagons around the current law, Democrats are eyeing the future -- and the prospects of enacting a single-payer system that would fundamentally re-order American life well beyond doctors' offices and emergency rooms.
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Though the authors couldn't say whether or not these cases were EVALI, the trend in emergency rooms continued and increased for more than two years, until June 2019 — when the number began rising sharply, and finally peaking in September.
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Recently, a group of researchers and health officials published a study in JAMA that estimated the extent of antibiotic overprescription in the US: They found 30 percent of antibiotics doled out in emergency rooms and doctors' offices are unnecessary.
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The researchers, from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, uncovered wild variation in the charging practices of hospital emergency rooms, and found that vulnerable patients — uninsured people, minority groups — are more likely to be hit with the highest bills.
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He says Americans undergoing surgery abroad would be wise to seek care in a multidisciplinary hospital or in a medical center that's close to one, because such facilities are equipped with emergency rooms, intensive care units, and infectious disease teams.
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A 2008 National Institute of Health study found that women wait an average of 16 minutes longer than men when receiving pain medicine in emergency rooms, and women are 13-25% less likely to receive opioids when they're in pain.
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About 20.4 million patients over the age of 65 were treated in emergency rooms in 2011, up from 15.9 million a decade earlier, according to the most recent national hospital survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Importantly, they also result in savings in other parts of the health care system and society at large, including increased worker productivity and fewer dollars spent in the more costly arenas of healthcare—emergency rooms, hospital beds, and surgical suites.
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Taking away the ACA entirely would deprive millions of people of insurance, and a lot more patients would get treated at emergency rooms—but a full repeal would at least be intellectually consistent with the conservative movement's anti-government rhetoric.
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Women have shown up at emergency rooms in pain from a miscarriage, only to be turned away because the hospital follows the Directives that ban doctors from treating the miscarriage (treatment would be to speed the termination of the pregnancy).
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Particularly in rural areas or communities without a specialized pediatrician or Child Advocacy Center, (emergency rooms) may increasingly be relied on to coordinate the medical care of survivors and help with the forensic work for child protective services and the courts.
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Two weeks into Japan's blistering heat wave, at least 80 people have died and thousands have been rushed to emergency rooms, as officials urged citizens to stay indoors to avoid temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) in some areas.
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Later as a gastroenterology fellow at Johns Hopkins in the 1990s, when the city's homicide rate peaked, and victims of gang violence filled the emergency rooms, he recalled being only feet away from gunshots while taking a walk outside the hospital.
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Women with abdominal pain wait in emergency rooms for 65 minutes compared with 49 minutes for men , and young women are seven times more likely to be sent home from a hospital while in the middle of a heart attack.
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In California, hospitals are allowed to assign nurses as many as four patients in emergency rooms and some units where patients' illnesses are not so acute, but as few as one or two in operating rooms and intensive care units.
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" The movement across the whole of the collection echoes Dante: down, concentrically, into the revelations of illness and death, to "the phase in which these visits to emergency rooms and clinics increased in frequency and by now have become commonplace.
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Dr. Andrew Herring, an emergency medicine doctor at Highland, persuaded the California Health Care Foundation to give a small grant last year to Highland and seven other hospitals in Northern California to experiment with dispensing buprenorphine in their emergency rooms.
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At emergency rooms in Los Angeles, doctors say they are trying to weed out truth from fiction on social media about how to diagnose coronavirus cases in the absence of tests, and under what circumstances they need to wear protective gear.
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Stephenson believes one key factor behind this constant demand on emergency rooms is the strain and lack of funding for primary care services: local general practitioners, who should be the first port of call for anyone with mild or moderate illness.
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Broad-spectrum antibiotics that act on a wide array of bacteria are commonly used in emergency rooms and intensive care units to combat bloodstream infections, or sepsis, which kill 270,43 Americans a year, accounting for a third of all hospital deaths.
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Emergency rooms are meant to have open capacity in case of a major emergency, be it a train crash, a natural disaster or a school shooting, and we are constantly clearing any beds we can in pursuit of this goal.
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Some of my favorites involved a custom vacation where you could walk a tiger, personalized cryotherapy, high-end pet hotels, concierge emergency rooms and college tours by private jet, which don't seem so odd after this year's college admissions bribery scandal.
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The top seven most expensive payments last year from the state program to provide sheriffs in emergency rooms were to critical access hospitals, of which all but one had been the subject of at least one citation involving police conduct.
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The price of the cure is a fraction of what it costs to finance liver transplants, treat liver cancer, or clog up emergency rooms and urgent care facilities with patients who otherwise might be cured in a matter of weeks.
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Football, bicycling, basketball, playground activities and soccer were the sports and activities most likely to send children to emergency rooms for TBIs, according to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Over the course of a year, at least 294 people visited two Southern California emergency rooms with broken bones, bumps, bruises, and head injuries — including brain bleeds — from scooter accidents, according to a paper published today in the journal JAMA Network Open.
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The study also found that the number of preventative care visits and visits to alternative venues like emergency rooms and urgent care centers rose, but the rate of problem-based "sick" visits fell—as the out-of-pocket cost of sick visits rose.
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The ordeal will stretch every resource in Huntington, clogging the emergency rooms in the town's two hospitals, testing the resolve of the most hardened medics and prompting a manhunt for the peddler of a batch of heroin laced with an unknown substance.
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Baptist Health is keeping its hospitals and emergency rooms in the South Florida region open, but shut down its urgent care centers through at least Thursday, closed its ambulatory surgery centers through Friday and closed its imaging centers for the same time period.
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Emergency rooms could also be permitted to give maintenance doses of methadone or buprenorphine to people suffering from withdrawal—thereby both removing an incentive for drug seekers to fake pain and offering a first step to get people into more traditional treatment.
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He pointed out that parents were forced to flood emergency rooms in four different New Jersey towns with their sober-ass kids, leaving hospital staff totally overwhelmed and confused as to why they had to draw blood from a bunch of teens.
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Allowing them to spend their own money in this way would, in fact, benefit the state and local governments by reducing demand for charity care at emergency rooms and public hospitals, which are typically the last resort for people who lack insurance.
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The details: UnitedHealthcare alleged in its court filing, in response to Envision's initial lawsuit, that Envision had "egregious billing practices" and "engaged in an improper game of hide-the-ball" to pad profits — particularly in emergency rooms that hospitals farmed out to Envision.
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The first statewide investigation since Michigan loosened its law in 2012 also showed a shift in the severity of head injuries diagnosed in emergency rooms, with more skull fractures and fewer mild concussions after the state allowed most bikers to ride without helmets.
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With news mounting of this season's flu being a particularly virulent one — evidenced by overcrowded emergency rooms and an uptick in related deaths across the country — it's eerily ironic that this year marks the 220th anniversary of the 21918 global influenza pandemic.
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The chemicals cause severe burns to the mouth, esophagus or respiratory tract, she said, adding that some very young and very old patients with cognitive issues have been rushed to emergency rooms or even died as a result of eating the packets.
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"I would rather see better efforts to make sure people are disinfecting emergency rooms and high-touch surfaces in hospitals and schools more than I would want to see bleach being sprayed on streets," Saskia Popescu, an infection-prevention epidemiologist, told Business Insider.
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The Washington Post reported that healthcare workers were building triage tents outside emergency rooms, squeezing extra beds into break rooms and physical-therapy gyms, and calling for delays in elective surgeries — or cancelling them altogether — as they grapple with the rapidly spreading disease.
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He started a biotech company and collected millions of dollars in capital, including from famed businessman Mark Cuban, and he hopes to start bringing 3-D heart-scanning technology to hospitals and emergency rooms across the country as early as this year.
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Research on the Alameda County model found such units can dramatically reduce how long patients spend in medical emergency rooms, and that about three-quarters of patients treated in the units can be discharged to the community rather than to inpatient care.
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But after a few minutes describing some of the crazy things that happen in the policy world and in emergency rooms (more on that for a later column), he honed in on a gripe: "Nobody pays very much attention to prevention," he explained.
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According to new analysis of 2000 emergency rooms published this week in JAMA Pediatrics and reported by CNN, the number of children aged 22017-22019 who arrived with suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts doubled from 213,221 to 22017 million between 230 and 2015.
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A study of nine V.A. emergency rooms found 2709 percent fewer suicidal behaviors among patients who received follow-up outreach after suicide attempts; as a result of this study, all V.A. medical centers have put into place the Safety Planning Intervention program.
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He said one study showed that 97 mentally ill people, mostly schizophrenics, had over a five-year period been arrested 2200 times, spent 27,000 days in the county jail, 13,000 days in emergency rooms or psychiatric facilities, and cost taxpayers almost $13 million.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten said on Sunday that if his party wins the May 2003 election, wages will rise, more children will go to pre-school, small businesses will get more tax cuts and hospitals will get their emergency rooms upgraded.
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Meanwhile, hospital bed numbers have fallen, numbers visiting emergency rooms have risen, and the demand for social care -- such as home care or equipment -- in the community has increased with limited services in place to provide it, again leaving more people with fewer hospital beds.
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While they undoubtedly make traveling across campuses or in relatively small communities much more convenient than car services or shuttles, they're also clogging sidewalks, parks, alleys, and even beaches, while creating untold numbers of minor visits to emergency rooms in the cities they've expanded into.
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A father of four from Southern California is in a fight for his life after he contracted influenza during an intense flu season that has put stress on many of the nation's hospitals as their emergency rooms continue to fill up with patients experiencing symptoms.
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Many insurers have already been encouraging patients to use urgent care centers, which can provide some of the same services as emergency rooms for as little as a tenth of the cost, said Laurel Stoimenoff, chief executive of the Urgent Care Association of America.
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The woman who is overseeing the trauma project, Cheryl Sharp, noted that chronically ill people who have past trauma can quickly rack up large hospital bills as they cycle in and out of emergency rooms, with costs often borne by public programs like Medicaid.
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Soon after that, an impromptu fleet of ambulances, private vehicles, taxis, Ubers and Lyfts began scooping them up from the festival site on the Strip and rushing them to nearby hospitals, where besieged emergency rooms became the front lines in a battle to save lives.
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This can only be done if the full complement of care delivery sites—doctors' offices, urgent care clinics, emergency rooms, and hospitals—are at the table partnering with other key stakeholders such as payers and patients exchanging ideas on how to solve acute care challenges.
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But by 2010, 42 percent of children in stroller accidents and 53 percent of babies in carrier accidents who were treated in emergency rooms were found to have suffered a brain injury or concussion, according to the report published Wednesday in the journal Academic Pediatrics.
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Founded in 1985, Christ House was one of the first places in the country to offer a service that is increasingly being embraced in cities nationwide: medical respite, or recuperative care, which seeks to fill a gap between what emergency rooms and shelters can provide.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Two weeks into Japan's blistering heat wave, at least 80 people have died and thousands have been rushed to emergency rooms, as officials on Tuesday urged citizens to stay indoors to avoid temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) in some areas.
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Unless we figure out how to sort of move toward what the New York Times called for the other day — a national lockdown of sorts — we're just going to see cases increase and emergency rooms and ICUs across the country be filled to capacity.
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Porter's advocacy comes on the heels of massive testing shortages in the U.S. Americans who suspect they may have coronavirus report being unable to access testing, and being shuffled around between their primary care doctors, emergency rooms, the Department of Health, and never receiving answers.
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The treatments are not available in most emergency rooms, as The Times has reported, even though studies show that patients given buprenorphine in an E.R. are twice as likely to be in treatment a month later than those who are given an information pamphlet.
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Under that system, emergency rooms would serve as portals of entry, getting people started on buprenorphine and referring them to a hub, or large-scale addiction treatment clinic, to get adjusted to the medication and a spoke, or primary care practice, for ongoing care.
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"Because we are seeing contacts throughout the nation of people that may have traveled to various areas, we have started pre-screening outside of our emergency rooms so that a febrile respiratory virus-infected patient is actually screened before they actually get in," Stone said.
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More recently, they have found a niche in health care, where ransomware attacks take on a new level of urgency as doctors and emergency rooms in Britain discovered on Friday when hackers blocked their access to patient records, and patients had to be turned away.
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In its proclamation, the White House said it was taking the additional step to safeguard the health-care system for American citizens by preventing immigrants from enrolling in Medicaid or going to emergency rooms with no insurance, requiring hospitals or taxpayers to cover the cost.
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Emergency rooms typically sent him home as too high-functioning, and when they did admit him, he ended up in a mental health ward or in a behavioral health hospital for a few days to two weeks, which was never enough time to stabilize him.
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Researchers used the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, administered by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, to determine the number of kids under the age of 6 who were seen in emergency rooms across the United States after swallowing an object between 1995 and 2015.
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The number of Americans turning up in emergency rooms suffering from opioid overdoses has risen sharply in recent years, according to new federal data, as the size and scope of a devastating public health crisis evolves in ways officials say is difficult to combat.
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"There's a widespread recognition that the federal government, Congress, has created the right for every American to have health care," he said, warning that to throw people off their insurance or make coverage unaffordable would only shift costs back to taxpayers by burdening emergency rooms.
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Separate data from the Center for Public Policy Priorities, an Austin-based think tank, finds that a staggering number of Texas emergency rooms have zero in-network emergency physicians — meaning that patients are guaranteed to see a doctor who does not accept their health insurance.
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Researchers analyzed visits to emergency rooms and outpatient clinics for adolescents and young adults ages 22017 to 20163 between 22016 and 29 using data from two national surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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According to two national surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, covering 78,263 visits to emergency rooms and outpatient clinics by teens and young adults between 2005 and 2015, 15% of ER visits and three percent of outpatient visits resulted in an opioid prescription.
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The red shirts have helped to relieve the stress on local emergency rooms that otherwise would be overwhelmed with demand every time an area hosted a major event, such as the weekend-long Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival that brings 30,000 out-of-towners into Okeechobee, Fla.
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Patzer made the announcement Wednesday while on the Next Stage at Disrupt SF. Patzer's company, which he co-founded with Dr. Justin Schrager of Emory University, is an enterprise software business that aims to make emergency rooms visits easier and more efficient for patients and doctors.
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They routinely encounter patients who, like Laura, are on unnecessary combinations of psychiatric medications, but for different reasons: Laura saw her therapists as gurus who would solve her problems, whereas poor or marginalized patients may be overtreated as they cycle in and out of emergency rooms.
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On Saturday, you'll have the opportunity to hear from some of those members, who, beyond their involvement in the party, have worked in mental health and alternative-to-incarceration programs, emergency rooms, and organizations like the Salvation Army and the New York City Board of Education.
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One New York provider, Sollis Health, offers family memberships for about $8,000 a year, with facilities — basically, V.I.P. emergency rooms — on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (where a Chuck Close original hangs in the lobby), TriBeCa and, in summer, a house call service in the Hamptons.
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Mr. Rector, an enthusiastic supporter of the SNAP work requirements, recently published a widely circulated analysis of Medicaid that declared the new waivers counterproductive — because they would simply drive more poor patients to emergency rooms, shifting the cost burden from the federal government to localities and hospitals.
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When Banner Health, a large group based in Phoenix, partnered with Aetna to offer a joint health plan, it decided to add 35 retail clinics where people could get care after-hours or closer to their homes rather than show up in the system's emergency rooms.
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Marney Gruber, a doctor who works in emergency rooms around New York City, said a number of commonly used medications are in short supply, and at least one hospital had run out of central line kits, which are used to administer drugs to patients in intensive care.
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Marney Gruber, a doctor who works in emergency rooms around New York City, said a number of commonly used medications are in short supply, and at least one hospital had run out of central line kits, which are used to administer drugs to patients in intensive care.
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Hospitals provide extensive outpatient care, but every year tens of thousands of people, many of them poor and underinsured, continue to seek help at emergency rooms that offer limited personalized attention and hardly skim the surface of the social problems that contributed to them ending up there.
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Mike Beadsworth, clinical director of the Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit at the Liverpool hospital, said in a statement that there was "currently no risk to other staff, patients or visitors," and urged people to continue to only visit emergency rooms if their cases are serious.
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It will stop out-of-network billing from air ambulances, which are outrageously expensive (a median price of $39,000 in 2016) but not ground ambulances, even though half of all ambulance bills are out of network, far higher than the proportion for emergency rooms (19 percent).
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ANOTHER REASON TO WORRY ABOUT OVERCROWDED EMERGENCY ROOMS Beth Keegstra, the ER doctor who attended to Bardwell — who reportedly was unable to speak and was numb at the time — seemingly didn&apost take the man&aposs health claims seriously when she was caught on camera allegedly mocking him.
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For the current study, researchers examined data on these less-serious crash-related injuries treated in emergency rooms between 2007 and 2014 in 16 U.S. states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
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Because I don't think they ought to live in prison or live under a bridge; to treat the drug-addicted so they're not in an in-and-out-of- the-door policy out of the prisons; and to help the working poor so they don't live in emergency rooms.
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Moreover, they could contain the cost of the epidemic, estimated at $26m a year, by saving up to $1.9m a year in costs related to treating skin infections and hundreds of thousands of dollars thanks to fewer trips to hospital and a reduced use of ambulances and emergency rooms.
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Researchers looked at the change in the numbers of people using retail clinics and compared to the numbers of people using doctors' offices, emergency rooms and other traditional providers to determine what use in the clinics was new, compared to patients who would have otherwise gotten treatment elsewhere.
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The longer term health impacts of climate change also hit women and children the hardest: Infants and toddlers are especially vulnerable to air pollutants and extreme heat, resulting in increasing numbers of children in emergency rooms from heat-related illness and more missed school days for kids with asthma.
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Children's National is moving its efforts to departments beyond the ER. If emergency rooms can demonstrate these changes are worthwhile -- that they improve a patient's perception of the hospital and improve care -- that could spur more to adopt them, said Todd Glass, chief of emergency medicine at Nemours.
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Without backing away from efforts to prevent and manage diseases and to increase primary care capacity to address acute care needs in office settings, efforts to address the needs of patients who end up in urgent care, emergency rooms, and hospitals for acute care should be a priority.
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The good news for availability of this test is that ID NOW, the hardware from Abbott that it runs on, already "holds the largest molecular point-of-care footprint in the U.S.," and is "widely available" across doctor's offices, urgent care clinics, emergency rooms and other medical facilities.
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And after manufacturers voluntarily withdrew products marketed for infants, and changed labels to recommend against use in young children, researchers found a drop in children coming to emergency rooms for problems with these medicines, which in past studies ranged from hallucinations to cardiac arrhythmias to depressed level of consciousness.
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To take a closer look at the rate of injuries around the nation involving electric scooters, Breyer and colleagues turned to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), which provides estimates of the number of injured people turning up at U.S. emergency rooms based on a sample of hospitals.
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The Sinkhole That Saved the Internet By: Zack Whittaker In May of 2017, an unprecedented ransomware outbreak hit hundreds of thousands of computers all over the world, including systems belonging to the UK's National Health Services, forcing health care facilities to turn patients away and close emergency rooms.
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Governments at all levels need know where their new residents will be coming from, how many new kids can be expected to show up in public school classrooms, how many patients are likely to use hospital emergency rooms, what social services they will require, and other essential information.
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But health experts say these public displays of germ-busting are probably not doing much to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, and that the disinfection should instead target specific spots, like emergency rooms, and communal surfaces in hospitals, where more coronavirus germs are likely to get swapped around.
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The study looked at data on children less than 15 months old who'd been treated in emergency rooms between 1990 and 2014 after using a walker to see if a mandatory federal safety standard issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2010 decreased the number or severity of injuries.
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The legislation- H.R. 6900, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act- includes bills on access to naloxone, an anti-overdose medication; ensuring access to quality sober living; alternatives to opioids in the Emergency Department; and preventing overdoses in Emergency Rooms.
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The drug has been the source of an alarming and sudden surge in overdoses — over three days this week, 2140 people across New York City were treated in hospital emergency rooms after overdosing on K23, almost equaling the total for the entire month of June, according to the city's health department.
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Providing universal housing and keeping the commitment to the social standard, the winning proposals also extended beyond the residential buildings themselves — in order to ensure quality of life, the designs included schools, kindergartens, parks, farmers markets, emergency rooms, and social clubs, all of them self-run and freely available to all.
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Laughon is in the initial stages of a project to more clearly establish what strangulation looks like, with the goal of helping people working in emergency rooms know what types of physical evidence to look for, and to give expert witnesses stronger credibility when testifying about that evidence in court.
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Kylie got to witness one of the surgeries (in full glam, and later meets with the three month old in a black sports bra and leggings because #OnBrand) and she and her mother were both brought to tears at the sight of the families watching their newborns go into the emergency rooms.
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Dr. Ronn Berrol, medical director of the Alta Bates Summit Emergency Department in Oakland, says his hospital is "for sure" seeing people come in with injuries from scooters, although the way hospitals and emergency rooms classify injuries — using codes for "mechanical fall" or "pedestrian fall," for instance — doesn't include scooter accidents yet.
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The new findings show that having people report their sexual orientation on a form during registration "is the best patient-centered way to collect sexual orientation and gender identity information in emergency rooms," said study coauthor Adele Levine, a researcher at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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But the idea is much like the argument for how paying for preventative care reduces medical costs down the road:The algorithm, known as the Silicon Valley Triage Tool, draws on millions of pieces of data to predict which homeless individuals will use the most public services like emergency rooms, hospitals, and jails.
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The Texas law requires abortion clinics to become mini emergency rooms The Texas clinics argue that HB2 ought to fit the "undue burden" definition: Because it would force most Texas abortion clinics to close, it would become the type of "substantial obstacle" that the Supreme Court has previously found to be unconstitutional.
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" MSF said that even though it had provided US forces with the GPS coordinates for the facility, the main central hospital building, which houses the intensive care unit, emergency rooms, and physiotherapy ward, was "repeatedly hit very precisely" by bombs for more than an hour, "while surrounding buildings were left mostly untouched.
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" >> "What we're seeing right now in our emergency rooms is dire," Dr. Craig Spencer of the Columbia University Medical Center told Anderson Cooper Tuesday night... "To think that we'll be in any place to lift these restrictionary measures by Easter, in just two or three weeks, for me, seems completely magical thinking.
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The women, who help run a Facebook group for hundreds of parents whose children have the disease, say that even today, six years after the first set of cases, emergency rooms still frequently send children home when they have signs of AFM, attributing the paralysis to a pinched nerve or some other cause.
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Nassir Ghaemi, Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts, was part of the APA symposium, and told Axios about his views: Psychiatrists already diagnose patients without consent and use behavior and history from third parties as the basis — like patients taken to emergency rooms and patients who can't be trusted to understand their own symptoms, he said.
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Local officials are also hoping that this disturbing incident will serve as a reminder that newborns "can be safely surrendered to any firehouse or hospital emergency rooms in the City of Stockton within 72 hours of birth without fear of being prosecuted as long as the baby shows no signs of abuse or neglect."
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But in the face of the looming crisis, hospital executives said that leaders were underwhelmed by their Wednesday meeting with Verma, who spent much of the hour-long session taking notes but failed to calm industry fears about swamped emergency rooms and medical supply shortages, according to three individuals with direct knowledge of the meeting.
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The bill would set up protocols for emergency rooms around the nation on how best to discharge overdose patients, making sure they have the opioid overdose antidote naloxone and access to other medication-assisted treatment, as well as being linked up with peer-support specialists and other treatment programs that best fit the patient.
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We know that women are regularly taken less seriously by doctors and healthcare professionals (women, for example, wait an average of 16 minutes longer than men in emergency rooms, and are more likely to be prescribed less pain-relieving medication.) Could MCS—a condition with clear, life-altering symptoms for its sufferers—be overlooked for these same reasons?
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Blood: At Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Gregory A. Storch, a specialist in pediatric infectious disease, and colleagues are examining the role of viruses and the immune system in the blood and respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts of children who develop serious fevers that result in some 20 million visits a year to hospital emergency rooms.
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Flu fighters may be furloughed Emergency rooms across the country are filling up with flu cases -- doctors say it's one of the worst flu seasons in recent years -- but despite the demand, the flu fighters who monitor the outbreak and help with testing at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might not stay on the job.
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A recent study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine found that nearly half of U.S. medical care already comes from emergency rooms — and a different study, from the New England Healthcare Institute, concluded that the overuse of U.S. emergency departments (especially for non-urgent matters) results in $85033 billion in wasteful spending each year.
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A new study conducted at the cancer center at the University of California, San Francisco, found that of 922 patients who had died, most in their 60s and 70s, those who had received palliative care for 90 days or more were less likely to have late-life hospitalizations and to visit intensive care units or emergency rooms than those who sought care later.
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RJ: One of the things that we heard over and over again, talking with various parties, including customers of Theranos, is that Elizabeth Holmes had told them that these Theranos-manufactured devices had been deployed in hospital rooms, emergency rooms and medevac helicopters among other places, and she's asked if this is accurate, and in every single case, the answer is no.
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For the study, researchers from University College London and Leeds University examined anonymous data from more than 1 million adolescents ages 10 to 19 who'd been admitted to emergency rooms in England between April 1997 and March 8003 for injuries that were either purely accidental or the result of some type of "adversity," including self-harm, alcohol, drugs, or violence.
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Benjamin Breyer, a UCSF urologist and co-author of the study, told the Guardian that he and his colleagues are interested in people's pube routines because they've been surprised to see how many people are getting hurt: A previous study found that 261 percent of people who went to emergency rooms with an injury to their reproductive or urinary organs were there because of grooming injuries.
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Photo: Dan Kitwood (Getty)Amidst a rise in reports that emergency rooms are seeing a spike in visits from people who have seriously messed themselves up while riding electric scooters, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to assess the threat of the increasingly popular vehicles, which are only going to become more prevalent as major companies like Uber, Lyft, Bird, and Lime expand the market.
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In a Tuesday letter, signed by the heads of 52 anti-abortion advocacy groups including Susan B. Anthony List, National Right to Life, and the Family Research Council, the groups called for restrictions on medication and surgical abortion providers in order to "free up much needed medical equipment" and ease an alleged strain on emergency rooms stemming from patients with complications from abortion care.
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By funding the expansion of state Medicaid programs beyond the traditional populations of poor mothers and children, the law has brought coverage to tens of thousands of previously uninsured shooting victims, often young African-American men, who, once stabilized in emergency rooms, missed out on crucial follow-up care and have endured unremitting effects of nerve injuries, fractured bones, intestinal damage and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Thirty years later, I still go through periods of worry about my mortality, even though I have been healthy since, but my main takeaway is that people who say we do not need universal health insurance and a personal relationship with a doctor but instead can be treated in emergency rooms have no idea they are condemning people like me to an early death.
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Read more:I visited a &aposprivate ER&apos where people pay up to $5,000 a year to skip the hospital— take a lookThere&aposs been a spike in ER visits in Colorado following marijuana legalization, and edibles are doctors&apos biggest concernThe largest healthcare company in the US is sounding the alarm on a new kind of emergency room that charges 20 times more than a regular doctor visitElectric scooters like Lime&aposs and Bird&aposs sent more people to two Los Angeles emergency rooms than regular bikes, new study says
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