Patients who were admitted to 75 hospitals across the state spent 5-5.5 hours in the ED and patients who were sent home spent about 2,5 hours there.
Before the new law took effect, Massachusetts hospitals frequently turned away ambulances when their EDs were overcrowded.
Read the Boston Globe’s report on Massachusetts EDs.
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