Sentences with phrase «visit the emergency room of»

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Plus, they spend an additional $ 1.1 billion of their own money on emergency room visits and public health insurance programs that could be mitigated with paid leave policies.

These services aim to provide affordable care in place of more expensive healthcare services like emergency room visits.

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.

Back in 2012, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan stated that it costs about $ 40,000 a year to fund a homeless person, with the costs of shelters, emergency room visits, and jails being factored.

According to a 2009 survey (using 2005 - 06 data) by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the estimated cost of an emergency room visit ranged between sub - $ 100 in the Maritimes to a high of $ 148 in Ontario.

Just 38 percent of Americans said they could cover an unexpected emergency room visit or even a $ 500 car repair with cash on hand in a checking or savings account, according to Bankrate, which commissioned the study.

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.

Meanwhile, researchers in Regina found that Housing First created cost savings of nearly $ 75,000 per person annually through lower costs of policing, days in hospital, emergency room visits, and detox visits.

I had come in seeking an explanation for why I was suddenly seeing double out of my right eye, and she didn't even do a check on me before she was telling me that the best thing I should do was to visit the emergency room.

The only thing that has changed is that millions of folks now do have health care coverage, so they don't need to go to the emergency room for a nice, costly visit.

When my husband was a doctor, he'd notice an uptick in Emergency Room visits around Christmastime: the stress, dense foods, and disrupted routines of the season were literally making people sick.

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.

Interestingly, riding a bike and playground were number one and number three on the list of activities resulting in emergency room visits for traumatic brain injury overall (8.1 % and 7.9 % respectively), second and third among males under age 19 (16.5 %, 7.8 %), second and first among girls (11.8 %, 14.2 %), and number one and two for boys and girls aged 9 or younger.

We will look at compelling statistics about infant abuse / Shaken Baby Syndrome, infant emergency room visits, as well as Breastfeeding initiation and duration rates and how the introduction of baby carriers as a public health intervention could effect those different statistics.

If you stood in the lobby of your local emergency room you would no doubt see that every day kids visit this unpleasant place because of injuries they sustain in the home.

According to the CPSC, thousands of kids visit the emergency room to be treated for injuries related to falls from shopping carts.

The study, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found lower rates of confirmed abuse cases, child out — of — home placements, and hospitalizations and emergency room visits for child injuries in counties where parenting support was implemented.

Furthermore, for those families in the study who practiced «stretching diapers» (i.e. using a soiled diaper multiple times), more doctors visits and emergency room visits per year were reported for cases of diaper dermatitis and UTI's in young children.

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.

Exertional heat stroke also results in thousands of emergency room visits and hospitalizations throughout the nation each year.

Statistics from the American Academy of Pediatrics show children injured by shopping carts make 24,000 visits to emergency rooms each year.

Meals should be cooked in advance and frozen, and bags packed in case of an emergency room visit.

Trips and slips send thousands of elders to the emergency room every day in America, and guarding against falls is one of the best ways to avoid an unwelcome visit to the hospital.

This suggests that the state's sports - related concussion law has helped to improve the evaluation and detection of such injuries among high school students, by increasing obligatory emergency room visits.

Stephanie Condon of CBS News wrote in her article (dated May 29, 2014) that young people account for around 250,000 emergency room visits annually due to sport or recreation - related head injuries.

It may save you an Emergency Room Visit and may save them the hassle of trying to find misplaced keys.

These youngsters also tend to have higher rates of accidental injuries — injuries from falls off furniture after excessive climbing, falling or jumping out of windows or off decks, unbuckling restraints and standing up in the car or stroller, even accidentally drinking poison — resulting in more emergency room visits.

The grants are largely designed to slash avoidable hospital admissions and emergency room visits 25 percent by the year 2020, and also ensure the financial sustainability of safety net healthcare providers, explained New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker.

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.

In an effort to combat «spice» sales, which have led to nearly 700 emergency room visits at three Bronx hospitals in recent months, Senator Klein also introduced new legislation to strengthen criminal and civil penalties to keep ahead of the synthetic drug trade.

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.

The gap would instead fall on hospitals, nursing homes and rural health care providers, he said, many of which are unequipped to handle a potential increase in emergency room visits and are already on the bubble — including facilities like Southampton Hospital, which he said was insolvent.

State Sen. Jeff Klein intends to introduce new legislation that would strengthen the penalties for selling synthetic marijuana in the wake of sales of the drug leading to almost 700 emergency room visits at Bronx hospitals in recent months, according to his office.

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

The study indicated that the proteins are readily measurable with standard assays, but the team hopes to develop a microfluidic chip that can derive reliable readings within just two hours (well within the duration of many emergency room visits).

In 2011, the use of bath salts was responsible for over 20,000 emergency room visits in the US and poisonings and deaths related to use have been occurring at large dance festivals.

A new report published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association earlier this month found that head injuries led an estimated 2.5 million people to visit a U.S. emergency room in 2010, and about one third of the cases were children.

After multiple emergency room visits and months of uncertainty, Adelynne was admitted to Seattle Children's where she met Suskind and was given a diagnosis: Crohn's.

Every 10 minutes in the greater Houston area, SAPPHIRE receives reports on emergency room cases, descriptions of patients» self - reported symptoms, updated electronic health rec - ords, and clinicians» notes from eight hospitals that account for more than 30 percent of the region's emergency room visits.

Out - of - pocket medical expenses, inpatient and outpatient care, emergency room visits and prescription drugs all contribute to the added health care expenditures, with inpatient prescriptions contributing the most, An said.

«The study reports asthma related emergency room visits are estimated to be 55 percent lower in people with asthma who use dose counting inhalers than in those who use inhalers without dose counters,» said allergist Allen Meadows, MD, ACAAI fellow and chair of the Public Education Committee.

By analyzing tweets and air quality information together, Ram and her collaborators were able to use machine learning algorithms to predict with 75 percent accuracy whether the emergency room could expect a low, medium or high number of asthma - related visits on a given day.

Led by Sudha Ram, a UA professor of management information systems and computer science, and Dr. Yolande Pengetnze, a physician scientist at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation in Dallas, the researchers looked specifically at the chronic condition of asthma and how asthma - related tweets, analyzed alongside other data, can help predict asthma - related emergency room visits.

To scout for potential attacks and disease outbreaks, the Department of Health and Human Services now monitors patterns of emergency room visits, over-the-counter drugs and school absenteeism.

Tens of thousands of emergency room visits and several deaths have been attributed to the substances.

While opponents of the measure have questioned links between carbon dioxide levels and emergency - room visits, evidence is piling on and health advocates are calling for action (ClimateWire, June 3).

Ram and her collaborators — including Wenli Zhang, a UA doctoral student in management information systems, and researchers from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation — created a model that was able to successfully predict approximately how many asthma sufferers would visit the emergency room at a large hospital in Dallas on a given day, based on an analysis of data gleaned from electronic medical records, air quality sensors and Twitter.

In 2000 researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health estimated that emissions from Salem Station caused 53 premature deaths, 16 heart attacks, more than 14,000 asthma attacks and 570 emergency room visits yearly.

Half of all adults older than 65 years of age made an emergency room (ER) visit in the last month of life, according to a study in the June issue of Health Affairs.

To address the possibility that some exacerbations might have been missed because participants either moved out of state or died without coming to a hospital, the team focused on a group of 524 patients for whom some sort of emergency room visit or hospitalization was recorded in the databases during the third year after surgery.