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Strategies for Sustaining Emergency Care in the United States

Description
Assesses the value of emergency care in the United States, evaluates challenges to sustaining emergency care, measures trends in emergency care payment, and identifies alternate funding strategies for emergency care. Features a case study of a hospital-based emergency department closure in a rural community, and mentions rural throughout.
Author(s)
Mahshid Abir, Brian Briscombe, Carl T. Berdahl, et al.
Date
04/2025
Organization
RAND Corporation
Tagged as
Abuse and violence · Closures of healthcare facilities and services · Emergency department and urgent care services · Graduate medical education · Health workforce supply and demand · Mental health · Nurses · Physicians · Policy · Public health · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Reimbursement and payment models

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