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Article: California emergency departments have maintained patient access, capacity.
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- April 19, 2004
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2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Despite reports of closures and reduced capacity, hospital emergency departments in California have maintained capacity and patient access, and are contributing to hospitals' profits, a study shows.
From 1990 to 2001 the number of California hospitals with emergency departments shrank 11.3%, from 405 to 359, according to the report, authored by a team of researchers from the University of Southern California and RAND, with funding from the California HealthCare Foundation.
Yet the decline in the number of available emergency departments doesn't seem to have affected emergency department capacity, according to ...