Ohio Cardiologists Train Urgent Care Doctors

DAYTON, Ohio — Cardiologists from the Dayton, Ohio area and doctors from the Dayton-area’s six Hometown Urgent Care facilities are teaming up to keep urgent care patients who have non-life threatening heart problems out of emergency rooms (ERs).

The cardiologists will train the Hometown urgent care doctors and provide them with screening tools so the Hometown physicians can better determine whether their heart patients' conditions are emergencies.

In return, Hometown is providing office space for the heart specialists at two of its locations.

The cardiologists and urgent care physicians estimate that 70 percent of patients who visit the emergency room with heart problems do not have life-threatening conditions. Therefore, they could conceivably be treated at urgent care centers instead.

The Hometown Urgent Care patients will be given heart disease education materials, said James Bean, MD, Hometown’s medical director.

"Our patients will benefit by receiving specialized consultation and easy accessibility to cardiac screening procedures," he told the Dayton Daily News.

ERs are often over crowded, and are burdened with people who do not have life-threatening conditions.

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Source: Dayton Daily News

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