Emergency Services and Trauma Care
The county emergency medical services system is facing increasingly challenging conditions such as overcrowding, which causes higher numbers of frustrated patients to leave without receiving care. In 2002, the average percent of time that the L.A. County DHS emergency rooms were on diversion climbed to 62 percent. Numerous studies document an increase in poorer outcomes among patients leaving without being seen, as well as longer transport times for diverted ambulances leading to higher rates of illness regardless of insurance status. The Frequent Users of Health Services Initiative is a five-year project funded by The California Endowment and the California HealthCare Foundation supporting six collaborative projects throughout the state focused on decreasing unnecessary use of emergency rooms and avoidable hospital stays.
Publications and Documents
Aug 31 2010
Dr. John Schunhoff, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS)
Status Report on Key Indicators of Progress and Hospital Operations Re: New LAC+USC Medical Center
Aug 17 2010
Dr. John Schunhoff, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS)
Status Report on Key Indicators of Progress and Hospital Operations Re: New LAC+USC Medical Center
Aug 09 2010
Dr. John Schunhoff, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS)
Average Daily Census, Hospital-based Outpatient Visits (Emergency Department and Ambulatory Care)
Aug 03 2010
Dr. John Schunhoff, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS)
Status Report on Key Indicators of Progress and Hospital Operations Re: New LAC+USC Medical Center
Jul 16 2010
Dr. John Schunhoff, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS)
Status Report on Key Indicators of Progress, Hospital Operations re: New LAC+USC Medical Center
Jul 01 2010
William Fujioka, L.A. County Chief Executive Office (CEO)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center Inpatient Tower Renovations and Multi-Service Ambulatory Care
Jun 22 2010
John Schunhoff, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS))
Status Report on Key Indicators of Progress, Hospital Operations re: New LAC+USC Medical Center
Jun 15 2010
Daniel Flaming, Michael Matsunaga, Patrick Burns, Gerald Sumner, Manuel H. Moreno and Halil Toros, Economic Roundtable
Tools for Identifying High-Cost, High-Need Homeless Persons
Jun 09 2010
Dr. John Schunhoff, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS)
Status Report on the Transition to the New LAC+USC Medical Center
Jun 09 2010
William Fujioka, L.A. County Chief Executive Office (CEO)
Capital Options for Reducing Emergency Room Overflow at County-Owned Hospitals
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