{"id":26251,"date":"2011-05-19T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_study_ers_shrink_as_demand_rises\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:00:56","slug":"usa_today_study_ers_shrink_as_demand_rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26251","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Study: ERs shrink as demand rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a third of emergency departments closed over the last two decades, while ER patient visits increased 35% during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1990 and 2009, the number of hospital emergency departments in non-rural areas in the USA declined by 27%, according to a study in Wednesday&#8217;s Journal of the American Medical Association.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a hefty number, and more than I expected,&#8221; says study author Renee Hsia, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. &#8220;The demand for care has increased and has rapidly outpaced our supply. They&#8217;re going opposite directions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/NEWS\/usaedition\/2011-05-18-ERs-closing-_ST_U.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a third of emergency departments closed over the last two decades, while ER patient visits increased 35% during the same period. Between 1990 and 2009, the number of hospital emergency departments in non-rural areas in the USA declined by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26251\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}