emergency room
nounDefinition of emergency room
: a hospital room or area staffed and equipped for the reception and treatment of persons requiring immediate medical care
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The hospital demanded payment in 2012 for what Ms. Price recalled as an emergency room visit for one of her children who has asthma. — Laura Beil, New York Times, "The Hospital Treated These Patients. Then It Sued Them.," 3 Sep. 2019 With an emergency room visit for food allergies said to occur every three minutes in the U.S., avoidance isn’t working, Bunning said. — Kay Manning, chicagotribune.com, "Adult-onset food allergies are becoming more common, with women most at risk," 30 Aug. 2019 Although my insurance picked up the full tab for that first emergency room visit, the hospital bill came to $17,294.17. — Caitlin Hillyard, CNN, "Don't pet the cat: My rabies education and the big bill that followed," 16 Aug. 2019 The 450-bed facility has an average daily census of 250 patients and 35,000 emergency room visits annually. — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, "What to know about University of Louisville's play to buy struggling Jewish Hospital," 13 Aug. 2019 One Chicago blog tracked 21 emergency room visits in the first week of a pilot program. — Robert Higgs, cleveland.com, "Cleveland is about to get scooters again, but will we embrace them or hate them?," 2 Aug. 2019 Other states who have cut their preventive dental services for Medicaid have studied and tracked increases in emergency room visits for dental reasons, Zasada said. — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, "Providers await impacts of Medicaid cuts; dental services axed," 18 July 2019 Programs like that can mean the difference in a trip for outpatient services at Cooper Green versus a pricey emergency room visit. — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al.com, "Cooper Green: What patients should know about healthcare partnership with UAB," 4 July 2019 The health care facilities operator— one of the country’s largest with 179 operating hospitals—benefited from increases in patient admissions, emergency room visits, and outpatient surgeries. — Fortune, "HCA Healthcare," 1 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'emergency room.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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