Emergency departments in hospitals nationwide have been quietly deploying the controversial tactic of ambulance diversion, which allows officials to turn would-be patients away. A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel review of the 25 largest cities found 16 of them allow ambulance diversion of some kind. In Milwaukee, a woman collapsed next to the best stroke center in the city, but her ambulance was turned away and she died. | |
News Alert Thursday, January 17 |
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