One-stop shop for care. Hospital ERs seeing increase in patients, capital.
Hospital emergency room departments are increasingly becoming a portal for patients to get care quickly. And hospitals are responding by transforming their operations. When Dr. Rich Zane, left, arrived last year as chair of the University of Colorado Hospital's emergency medicine department, the Aurora facility's ER was operating under "a process that's predicated on 1960s medicine and we're practicing it in 2013," he says.
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