If you want to stay safe and receive quality medical care while you’re in the ER, its best if you visit the same (Emergency Rooms) ER each time.

• A report published released recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that adults who made multiple ER trips to separate hospitals — some upwards of five — created a host of dangerous and costly problems because full health information is not always shared between hospitals.
• The reasons for choosing different facilities varied, sometimes patients moved or changed insurance between visits, while others got transferred between facilities.
• Patients who visited multiple ERs were exposed to the risk of medical errors, adverse events, delays in their treatment while waiting for more information and duplication of testing which added costs.
• Patients who visited more than two different sites racked up nearly twice the bill compared with patients who went to the same sites.
• The government has invested tens of millions of dollars to help providers implement electronic medical records systems.
• Until all providers get on board and install and use these devices, patients will continue to be at risk, not only in the ER, but doctors’ offices and hospitals as well, and we will receive poor, expensive health care.

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