http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/04/28/thanks-senator-reid/ The official ramblings of David Colborne - part of the problem since 1980! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:57:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/04/28/thanks-senator-reid/#comment-143 Gary Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:20:00 +0000 http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/04/28/thanks-senator-reid/#comment-143 Many hospitals do have a clinic attached to their ERs, or at least an "Urgent Care". Costs are typically kept down in these by staffing them with nurse practitioners, nurses, or other less-expensive-than-an-MD types, or by having doctors from other portions of the hospital rotate through "donating" small blocks of time that aren't billed to the clinic.<br/>I can't actually speak for anywhere around here, but most decent sized cities do have programs like this to take a load of the ER, and I hope Reno is among them. Many hospitals do have a clinic attached to their ERs, or at least an “Urgent Care”. Costs are typically kept down in these by staffing them with nurse practitioners, nurses, or other less-expensive-than-an-MD types, or by having doctors from other portions of the hospital rotate through “donating” small blocks of time that aren’t billed to the clinic.
I can’t actually speak for anywhere around here, but most decent sized cities do have programs like this to take a load of the ER, and I hope Reno is among them.

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