That’s how you cut emergency department use

More community health centers:

Family Health Center cuts its ER visits by 15 percent from 2006 to 2007 after creating a nurse triage system and adopting appointments for its urgent care department. Overall, ER visits dropped by 2 percent at the 21 health centers participating in a state initiative.

Finding physicians to staff community clinics is another matter, but the bottom line is that increasing outpatient medical access will relieve emergency department crowding.

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4. Poor primary care access drives up emergency department use
5. The pediatric emergency department
6. Is emergency department boarding associated with undesirable events?
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