Emergency departments are struggling to keep up with demand, serving a growing number of people at the same time that their numbers are shrinking. One increasingly popular option to improve access to services is the freestanding emergency department, a facility that, as its name suggests, isn’t physically located with a hospital. Services at these facilities [...]

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Consolidating services will lead to cuts Boston Medical Center plans to eliminate an unspecified number of jobs this spring as it moves to consolidate services in the face of continued financial deficits caused by cuts in reimbursement rates. The safety-net hospital, which serves a large population of low-income city residents, widened its operating loss to [...]

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