The answer to overcrowding and long queues in hospital emergency rooms is urgent-care facilities in the community, Health Minister Ya’acov Litzman said on Tuesday (December 27) at the opening of the private Terem urgent-care center in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood. Litzman said occupancy rates in all the hospitals have been raised due to the current cold season and patients suffering from complications of the flu.
\r\nUrgent-care centers have doctors, nurses and equipment to treat patients during the day or after hours (at night, on weekends and holidays), when hospital emergency room staffs are usually reduced and include more interns and residents than specialists. |
