By
Richard Siegrist, MBA, MS, CPA, CEO
As our 2009 Emergency Department Pulse Report indicates, long emergency department visits continue to plague U.S. hospitals. Sure, the length of the average visit for ED care went down a couple of minutes in 2008, but remained far too long at four hours and three minutes, almost half an hour longer than in 2002. In the best scenario, patients in South Dakota spent two hours fifty-two minutes in the ED last year; in the worst, ...