Ohio ER docs warn of more ‘patient boarding.’ It’s already getting worse, study says

Ohio ER docs warn of more ‘patient boarding.’ It’s already getting worse, study says

The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.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. Thats when people have to lie for hours in the emergency department, waiting for a bed to open up in the appropriate department of the hospi…