A sign for an emergency room. (Photo by David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal.)
As they try to anticipate the loss of billions to the Ohio health care system, emergency doctors warned last month that it would make patient boarding a lot worse. That’s when people have to lie for hours in the emergency department, waiting for a bed to open up in the appropriate department of the hospital.
Such waits are known to increase the likelihood of bad health outcomes and even death…