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A 6 page paper. EMTALA is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act enacted as part of COBRA in 1986 with the final regulations being published in 1995. This paper explains this law's mandates to emergency rooms and also reports some of the many ERs that had to close their doors. The paper discusses the impact of providing unpaid services to illegal aliens, which is one of the key reasons ERs have closed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: MM12_PGemtala.rtf
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emergency rooms had closed in the county in the prior two years (Madigan, 2004). Between 1990 and 2004, a total of 70 hospital emergency rooms and trauma centers in the
state of California closed (Madigan, 2004). In 2006, a report from the Institute of Medicine said that "emergency rooms were at the breaking point" (Kroot Law LLC., 2007). This
same report stated that the emergency departments in hospitals was overburdened and they are under-funded (Kroot Law LLC., 2007). Malkin (2004) reported that Los Angeles county spends over $340 million
treating illegal aliens in emergency rooms each year. Various studies, including one from Harvard, have found that the wait time for patients has become longer over the last ten years.
The Harvard study found that patients who are most seriously ill are waiting even longer than less ill patients (Kroot Law LLC., 2007). The average time a patient waits increased
by 36 percent between 1997 and 2004 (Kroot Law LLC., 2007). In terms of minutes, wait increased from 22 minutes to 30 minutes. Patients identified as needing immediate attention saw
their wait time increase by 40 percent, from 10 minutes to 14 minutes. And, what may seem totally incomprehensible, the wait time for heart attack patients increased from 8 minutes
to 20 minutes, an increase of 150 percent but at least 25 percent of these heart patients actually waited at least 50 minutes (Kroot Law LLC., 2007). What has happened?
There are many reasons for this deplorable service in hospital emergency rooms. One of those reasons is EMTALA. EMTALA is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act that was
incorporated into the COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) legislation passed in 1986 (American Academy of Emergency Medicine, 2009; Thorne, 2009). The basic purpose of this Act was to force
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