{"id":28098,"date":"2022-12-19T23:51:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T04:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=28098"},"modified":"2022-12-19T23:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T04:51:43","slug":"the-report-shows-lakeland-regional-health-medical-center-was-the-second-busiest-er-in-the-us-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/12\/19\/the-report-shows-lakeland-regional-health-medical-center-was-the-second-busiest-er-in-the-us-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The report shows Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center was the second busiest ER in the US in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a report from NiceRx, health experts said Dallas’ Parkland Health and Hospital System had the most emergency room visits in the nation in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to their research<\/a>, Parkland Health and Hospital System had 210,152 ER visits, nearly 20,000 more than the next hospital (190,581 at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center in Florida).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The study said research revealed that hospitals in North Texas<\/a> saw an expected rise in hospitalizations from the fast-spreading omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parkland Memorial Hospital reached a record single-day total of visits to the emergency room, the study added<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a list of the top 30 hospitals with the most ER visits in 2021, according to the data (*denotes hospitals reporting figures based on the fiscal year 2021):\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Parkland Health and Hospital System (Dallas) \u2014 210,152*<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Health Medical Center \u2014 190,581*<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. NYC Health + Hospitals\/Lincoln (New York City) \u2014 164,979<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta) \u2014 160,027<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. St. Joseph’s University Medical Center (Paterson, N.J.) \u2014 150,615<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth \u2014 142,330<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center \u2014 136,161<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora, Colo.) \u2014 132,160*<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Antelope Valley Hospital (Lancaster, Calif.) \u2014 130,659<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. WakeMed Raleigh (N.C.) Campus \u2014 127,059<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Boston Medical Center \u2014 120,811*<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Cape Fear Valley Medical Center (Fayetteville, N.C.) \u2014 119,774<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Montefiore Medical Center-Moses Campus (New York City) \u2014 119,443<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. John Peter Smith Hospital (Fort Worth, Texas) \u2014 117,956<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Wellstar Kennestone Hospital (Marietta, Ga.) \u2014 117,925<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Banner Desert Medical Center (Mesa, Ariz.) \u2014 117,004<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central (Colorado Springs, Colo.) \u2014 114,956*<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital-Oklahoma City (Okla.) \u2014 111,577<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. NYC Health + Hospitals\/Kings County (New York City) \u2014 111,427<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.) \u2014 110,259<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. University of Michigan Health – Ann Arbor \u2014 105,730<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Hartford (Conn.) Hospital \u2014 105,661 <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Sharp Grossmont Hospital (La Mesa, Calif.) \u2014104,986<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Children’s Medical Center Dallas \u2014 104,078<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. Reading Hospital-Tower Health (West Reading, Pa.) \u2014 102,689<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. Community Regional Medical Center (Fresno, Calif.) \u2014 101,073*<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital \u2014 97,952<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center (Annapolis, Md.) \u2014 95,314<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. NewYork-Presbyterian Queens (New York City) \u2014 93,997<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. Denver Health Medical Center \u2014 91,015<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    More than 130 million Americans visit US emergency rooms each year, the study states. According to the data<\/a>, the most common reasons for emergency room visits were: maternal and neonatal conditions, surgeries and COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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