EDs divert an ambulance every minute in the U.S.
Case Management Weekly, February 15, 2006
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An ambulance is diverted to a different hospital every minute because of emergency department overcrowding or bed shortages, according to a study released by the NCHS researchers based their findings on the amount of time hospitals reported being on diversion and the number of ambulance arrivals during those periods. The study found that about 500,000 ambulances per year were diverted from their original destinations because hospital EDs were too crowded or had a shortage of critical-care beds. Source:
In addition, researchers revealed that air and ground ambulances brought in about 14% of all ED patients, with about 16.2 million patients per year arriving by ambulance to all EDs. Of those patients, 70% had urgent conditions that required care within an hour.
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