Catbird
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Reading Hospital sets up off-campus flu clinic to ease strain on ER
Jan 08 2013 06:14:20 PM EST
"WEST READING, Pa. -
...The hospital has established a flu clinic to cut back on the number of people going to the emergency department for treatment.
Patients who show up at the hospital with flu-like symptoms are bused to the hospital's "S" building for further diagnosis. Patients admitted from the clinic are then taken back to the emergency department.
Officials said doctors were seeing more than 100 patients with flu-like symptoms each day before establishing the clinic."
Jan 08 2013 06:14:20 PM EST
"WEST READING, Pa. -
...The hospital has established a flu clinic to cut back on the number of people going to the emergency department for treatment.
Patients who show up at the hospital with flu-like symptoms are bused to the hospital's "S" building for further diagnosis. Patients admitted from the clinic are then taken back to the emergency department.
Officials said doctors were seeing more than 100 patients with flu-like symptoms each day before establishing the clinic."