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CDC Study, Webinar Focus on ED Opioid Overdoses

Mar 12, 2018 || Rachel Schwartz

A new CDC study finds a 30 percent increase in opioid overdose–related emergency department (ED) visits; the agency will host a webinar on coordinating clinical and public health responses to opioid overdoses treated in EDs.

cdc, ed throughput, opioids

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Essential Hospital Launches Mobile ED

Jan 31, 2018 || Michelle Rosenfeld

Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta, deployed the state-of-the-art mobile medical unit in an effort to free up hospital emergency department space for acute-care patients as flu season heats up.

cdc, ed throughput, grady health system, grady memorial hospital, infectious disease

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Essential Hospitals Tackle Housing Instability

Jan 26, 2018 || Emily Schweich

JPS Health Network and Bon Secours Baltimore Health System recently visited Capitol Hill to tell their stories of innovative housing and care coordination programs to help the chronically homeless.

bon secours baltimore health system, ed throughput, jps, population health, social determinants of health

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Free Housing Helps Homeless Patients Achieve Better Health

Sep 6, 2016 || Monika Joshi

The UI Health program aims to help the city's chronically homeless reach stability and reduce health care costs by providing them with permanent homes.

ed throughput, homelessness, university of illinois hospital health sciences system

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Site-Neutral Provisions in Proposed OPPS Rule

Jul 12, 2016 || Staff

The proposed rule would implement Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act, which reduced payments for new, off-campus hospital outpatient departments.

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Calif. Hospitals Launch Initiative To Reduce Repeat ED Visits

Jun 30, 2016 || Olivia Graziano

Six Northern California hospitals, including two association members, are using a shared database of emergency department patients' health records to promote consistent care across providers.

alameda health system, ehr, ed throughput, highland hospital, san leandro hospital

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America’s Essential Hospitals backs lifesaving services in our communities. Here’s how.

Jan 26, 2015 || Sandy Laycox, MFA

Association's new online magazine adds human-focused, emotional storytelling to its public policy, education, performance improvement, and research offerings.

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Hope and a Home for Acute-Care Dialysis

Aug 12, 2014 || Sandy Laycox, MFA

Harris Health System has developed a quick triage model and best practices to care for a growing number of acute-care dialysis patients in the Houston area.

chronic conditions, ed throughput, harris health system, immigration health care

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