Emergency Rooms vs Urgent Care Centers People everyday deal with sudden illnesses and emergencies‚ and it always seems these unfortunate situations happen when your physician’s office is closed. If your emergency is bad enough‚ most people will go to their local emergency department‚ but that may not always be the best choice. This is where it would benefit people to know the many differences between emergency rooms and urgent care centers. Emergency rooms and urgent care centers differ
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Economics of an Urgent Care Center in a Market of Emergency Departments One of the contributors to the rising cost of Healthcare can be attributed to the over use of emergency departments (EDs) for non-emergency needs. In the greater Capitol/First/Beacon Hill area there are three major hospitals (Virginia Mason‚ Harborview‚ and Swedish) with emergency rooms and no urgent care centers with the exception of Group Health which is restricted to Group Health insurance members. The question I asked
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and why the hospital emergency department sometimes used for nonurgent conditions. | The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act‚ better known as EMTALA was developed due to the concern that patients that could not pay would be denied emergency medical treatment. This law confronted the hospitals that were allegedly transferring‚ discharging‚ or refusing to treat patients who did not have insurance. To protect these patients‚ the 1986 signed law required emergency facilities to must screen
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For our first trip to the hospital I will be going to the emergency room otherwise known as the E.R. The emergency room is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad span of illnesses and injuries. In the ER there is a vast array of people caring for a patient including physicians‚ nurses‚ physician assistants‚ and surgeons. An abundant amount of tools are used in the emergency room. A stethoscope is a diagnostic tool that allows a nurse or physician
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The Emergency Room The emergency department team consists of many trained professionals each with a specific job in treating the patient. Emergency room personnel usually consists of administrative registration clerks‚ a triage nurse‚ primary nurses‚ a charge nurse‚ the attending physician or emergency nurse practitiner‚ and nursing assistants. Also‚ in certain hospitals the trauma team (surgeons‚ anesthesiologists‚ and specialized physicians) may be on standby to aid in an emergency situation
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controversy between Emergency Rooms versus Urgent Care Centers who provides the best care from each other. The debate over receiving treatment at a hospital emergency room versus treatment from an urgent care center is worth having for anyone concerned about medical debt‚ especially families‚ who may have a lot of “emergency” and “urgent” needs facing them every year. There are many sides to the debate‚ but generally my understanding for deciding between an emergency room and urgent care center are based upon
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Rita Hrycuna English Comp 1 Descriptive Paragraph 1-11-13 The procedure taken at my last emergency room visit took many steps. The evening began by entering in to an overly crowded waiting area. Every chair that lined the walls was filled with a warm body‚ many of whom where hacking‚ coughing‚ sneezing and such. I approached the registration window and was greeted by a kind intake worker who proceeded to evaluate my situation. He then sent me around the corner to have my vitals taken and
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The Evolution of Health Care HCS/531 January 11‚ 2013 The Evolution of Health Care Through the years healthcare systems have evolved all over the nation‚ one could say that it has changed from being somewhat primitive to highly technological. Gone are the days when one would have to search for a patients chart for hours‚ for their up coming appointment with their primary care physician or specialist‚ in order to ensure continuity of care. Today with a few simple clicks a patient’s information
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of Emergency Room as a Primary Care Provider There are Emergency rooms all over the United States that are being utilized as primary care provider.‚ by patients covered by private insurance‚ Medicaid‚ Medicare as well as the uninsured.(Baker‚ August 13‚ 2008) Some patients call their primary care provider and are told‚ they cannot be worked in for several days or weeks. The option given is to go to the Emergency room for treatment. Other reasons are people who do not have a primary care provider
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The fast paced world of Emergency room nursing is exciting‚ rewarding‚ and hard work. Emergency room nurses are responsible for treating patients who are experiencing illness‚ injury or trauma. Being a nurse means being able to think on your feet to solve a problem and execute a treatment plan. E.R nurses must have many different characteristics to be able to work in the emergency room. One characteristic is being able to handle a fast paced‚ constant change environment. Being in the E.R‚ things
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