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Author: John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Some hospitals turn away ambulances when the patients are more likely to be poor, study finds
A study found private hospitals are more likely to turn away ambulances when a public hospital is on diversion.
A woman had a stroke next to one of Wisconsin’s best hospitals. But her ambulance was turned away – and she died
Tiffany Tate collapsed next to a hospital closed to ambulances. This little-known “ambulance diversion” policy has been shown to endanger patients.
Man dies hours after being turned away from hospital
A man died of a heart attack after he was turned away from Ascension’s Franklin hospital with chest pains because there were no rooms.