Sentences with phrase «than the emergency room»

Such clinics are central to the health of the uninsured, since they are the only places other than emergency rooms where care does not depend on ability to pay.

The Spurs have more injuries than an emergency room right now with Kawhi Leonard and Rudy Gay both out and a few more players questionable.

«Medicaid patients need support to use primary care rather than emergency rooms.»

If you have a facial wound, ensure that a plastic surgeon, rather than an emergency room doctor, closes the wound in the most cosmetic way possible.

Pet insurance doesn't cover annual wellness visits, but we find that annual visits are much easier to budget for than emergency room visits.

There are certain universal truths — urgent care centers will usually cost less than an emergency room — but otherwise, healthcare costs can be all over the map.

There are also urgent care clinics and telemedicine services that charge much lower fees than an emergency room would.

This messaging tool is designed to help home visitors to encourage the families that they serve to use their medical home, rather than the emergency room, for primary care services.

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«The closing of these plants will do more to save lives than I could ever hope to achieve as a physician working in an emergency room.»

The hospital says the command center has shaved more than an hour off the time it takes to dispatch an ambulance to another facility and that emergency room patients are assigned a bed 30 % faster than before.

In 2014, the most recent data available from the CDC, Americans visited the emergency room 141 million times, with fewer than 8 % of these trips resulting in a hospital admission.

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.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

VANCOUVER — More than half a decade since the Vancouver Police Department last raised the alarm about the growing reliance on police and emergency rooms to fill gaps in mental health services, the problem continues to grow, says New Democrat mental...

Less than a month ago an optometrist informed me that I should immediately head into the emergency room of the Eye and Ear Hospital.

This drives the cost to the tax payer up much more than a universal health care program that would treat everyone fairly by private physicians and use the more expensive emergency rooms for emergencies as they were intended.

This pain was even worse than past kidney infections so off to the emergency room I went to discover that I had two kidney stones, one of which was a whopping 9 mm!

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than 920,000 athletes received care in an emergency room or doctor's office for football - related injuries in 2007.

Last year, more than 8,000 people in the United States (most of them children) received treatment at an emergency room for injuries related to fireworks.

Child safety gate for top of stair Statistically each year, more than 2,5 million children are treated in emergency rooms for fall - related injuries.

According to statistics each year, more than 2.5 million children are treated in emergency rooms for fall - related injuries.

In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that United States emergency rooms see more than 200,000 children up to age 14 each year for playground - related issues.

In some of these situations, especially if you are filling a pad or a tampon with bright red, painful bleeding, in less than an hour, you may also need to visit the nearest emergency room.

Many of the more than 477,500 youth soccer injuries serious enough to require treatment in hospitals, doctors» offices, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and hospital emergency rooms are preventable.

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), more than 250,000 toy - related injuries were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms in 2015.

The fact that more than 10,000 children visit emergency rooms each year in the US for food - related choking incidents is further proof that you shouldn't stake your baby's life on his gag reflex.

«It's a public park in a very high - density neighborhood, where many homes have small yards or no yard at all,» said Plotkin, 32, a Chicago emergency room physician who, along with some of her neighbors and Friends of the Parks, is battling to preserve the park and its more than 60 trees.

The playground is the perfect place for these activities, but sometimes poorly maintained equipment can be downright dangerous: In 2012, more than 200,000 children were treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries related to playground equipment.

Alfred Sacchetti, an emergency room doctor in Camden, New Jersey, and spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, says it's common for parents to worry more about their child being abducted by a stranger than about his riding in a car without a seat belt or playing near an ungated swimming pool — even though car - and water - related accidents pose a far greater threat to kids than aemergency room doctor in Camden, New Jersey, and spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, says it's common for parents to worry more about their child being abducted by a stranger than about his riding in a car without a seat belt or playing near an ungated swimming pool — even though car - and water - related accidents pose a far greater threat to kids than aEmergency Physicians, says it's common for parents to worry more about their child being abducted by a stranger than about his riding in a car without a seat belt or playing near an ungated swimming pool — even though car - and water - related accidents pose a far greater threat to kids than abduction.

Oversize staircase in Lincroft, New Jersey Statistically each year, more than 2.5 million children are treated in emergency rooms for fall - related injuries.

And more children show up in emergency rooms with injuries resulting from riding a bicycle than any other sport.

Balconies and windows According to statistics each year, more than 2.5 million children are treated in emergency rooms for fall - related injuries.

From 2003 to 2007, there were more than 43,000 car seat - related injuries reported in emergency rooms, and many of these were considered preventable.

Dr. Clingenpeel would rather educate parents about childproofing and home safety than treat their child in the emergency room.

more than 14,000 children under age 15 months have to go to the emergency room because of injuries related to using a baby walker each year

While you should call the doctor if your baby's fever gets alarmingly high, there is no need to rush to the emergency room every time baby feels a little warmer than usual.

In fact, according to the American Association of Pediatrics, there were more than 8,000 visits to emergency rooms due to injuries related to using a walker.

Did you know that every year more than 4,000 kids end up in the emergency room after tumbling out of a window?

The true difference probably lies in new research that shows boys wind up in the emergency room more often than girls, even in infancy.

A newly published study by researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital has found that the number of children treated in U.S. emergency rooms due to gate - related injuries more than tripled since 1990.

Katherine: Your midwife may be well - equipped, but they can't do an emergency c - section or an emergency D&C, either of which may be an absolute necessity and you may have less than 10 minutes to get to an operating room before real trouble begins.

If your child's fever is lower than 102 degrees Fahrenheit and he's not showing other signs of illness, you can probably skip the emergency room and check in with your pediatrician instead.

Each year, more than 173,000 children and adolescents are treated in emergency rooms for concussions and other traumatic brain injuries.

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), more than 16,000 children under the age of 5 went to the emergency room in 2006 with injuries caused when television sets, bookcases, and other furniture and appliances tipped over on them.

Statistically each year, more than 2.5 million children are treated in emergency rooms for fall - related injuries.

There is a large number of residents on Medicaid with poorer - than - average health outcomes who use the emergency room for primary care at disproportionately high rates.

It found that adults in Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed - Stuy and East New York had higher rates of emergency room visits for asthma than other neighborhoods.

Yes — some areas are in danger of losing primary emergency care, but in most areas of the state hospitals are beating each other over the head for patients because there are more hospital rooms than people dying to get into them.

The number of these costly emergency room visits could decrease dramatically as dental patients receive primary care in a proper dental clinic, rather than the «last resort» setting of an emergency room.

It has been shown to save government money and provide better outcomes than the array of government services homeless individuals use without supportive housing, including homeless shelters, substance abuse treatment, psychiatric hospitals, hospital emergency rooms, jail and prisons.