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NJ ambulances diverted every hour of every day
Quality Improvement Monitor, September 14, 2007
Emergency room overcrowding in New Jersey has become so dire that one ambulance is diverted every hour of every day, according to a study reported on by the Star-Ledger.
The situation is so bad that the state's hospitals would have a difficult time responding to a major health disaster without displacing many existing patients, according to the report by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, the Ledger reported.
"It's not always as simple as saying hospitals have fewer staffed beds," state Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs told the newspaper. "Emergency department diversions occur when units like critical care are full."
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