Emergency Room

Word EMERGENCY ROOM
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Larry Turley was an emergency-room physician when he launched Turley Cellars in the early 1990s. ❋ Jay McInerney (2011)

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services says there have been 618 emergency-room visits for heat-related illnesses this summer. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Dr. Weil, who died Friday at age 84, opened one of the nation's first intensive-care units, and developed the crash cart of emergency-room supplies, computerized vital-statistics monitors and the "stat" laboratory for quick diagnostics. ❋ Stephen Miller (2011)

Painkiller abuse costs the U.S. health-care system $72.5 billion annually from emergency-room visits, hospitalizations and other drug treatments, according to the CDC. ❋ Timothy W. Martin (2011)

Nationwide, 40% of emergency-room patients have private insurance and 17% are uninsured, according to a study released in July by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Consider the oft-quoted “statistic” that emergency-room care is the most expensive form of treatment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Savings will come, the theory goes, from fewer expensive emergency-room visits and re-admissions to the hospital — costs that are usually passed on to employers providing coverage or directly to patients without coverage. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)

Such projections are typically tied to improving the quality of care and paring some expensive needs, like hospital admissions and emergency-room visits. ❋ Anna Wilde Mathews (2012)

Humana hopes the centers can provide an alternative to costly emergency-room care for its members: A typical visit to a Concentra urgent-care clinic costs $190 to $200, including an X-ray, according to the company, while a comparable ER visit would range from $350 to $650 or more, with additional services for X-rays. ❋ Avery Johnson (2011)

Nationwide, overall emergency-room visits have also been rising, growing 5% from 2007 to 127.3 million in 2009, according to the American Hospital Association. ❋ S. Mitra Kalita (2011)

Tires squealing, the Lincoln sped around the circle and jerked to a stop in front of the emergency-room doors, its right side facing the hospital entrance. ❋ Del Quentin Wilber (2011)

It turned out that a nurse practitioner in an urgent care clinic can spot an ear infection for $30 a whole lot faster than an emergency-room physician can for $1,000. ❋ J.D. Kleinke (2012)

A review of emergency-room treatments for more than 181,000 babies age 2 and under from 1990 to 2008 showed an average of 113 deaths per year from accidents associated with those three pieces of nursery equipment. ❋ Jennifer LaRue Huget (2011)

The company was founded by Dr. James Leininger , who has been an emergency-room physician and who helped start and sold other health-care companies. ❋ Gregory Zuckerman (2011)

The July subpoena requested information on emergency-room management, including the use of "Pro-Med" software. ❋ Jon Kamp (2011)

Bayonne Medical Center on Tuesday unveiled two billboards in Jersey City that are updated with the emergency-room wait times several times a day. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)

For doctors, the goals might involve their rates of inpatient admissions and emergency-room use, the total cost of patients' care, and quality measures such as the share of patients getting recommended screenings. ❋ Anna Wilde Mathews (2012)

Although his father was an emergency-room physician and his mother a registered nurse, neither could identify what was troubling their son. ❋ Laura Landro (2011)

Once when he was in a hospital emergency-room bed wearing an Apple shirt, four health technicians poked their heads through the drapes and asked, "When is the iPad coming out?" ❋ Jessica E. Vascellaro (2011)

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