41.   Overall, the patients seen by the emergency departments were more likely to be female and white.

42.   Park, the emergency department medical director, frets that Tenncare and the resulting cuts have spread her staff too thin.

43.   One view of what redesigned health care looks like is blinking on a wall in the emergency department of Emory University Hospital.

44.   Predictions that managed care would reduce emergency department visits and thus the need for emergency physicians have proved false, he said.

45.   Rapid emergency department treatment has the potential to reopen blocked blood vessels sooner, minimizing heart muscle damage and improving long-term patient survival.

46.   Several hospitals are adding staff or expanding emergency departments to meet the demand.

47.   Some hospitals such as KU Med Center and Research Belton Hospital, are expanding their emergency departments and hiring more physicians.

48.   Sometimes a resident was staffing the emergency department, other times internal medicine doctors.

49.   STAT contracts with hospitals to provide emergency department staffing, while American Medical supplies emergency ambulance and emergency medical care.

50.   Strokes have been aggressively treated there for two decades, and physicians from its emergency department teach doctors around the country how to use TPA to treat strokes.