{"id":11457,"date":"2018-09-12T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11457"},"modified":"2018-09-11T12:57:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T16:57:14","slug":"rural-north-carolina-hospital-uses-walmart-clinic-to-ease-pressure-on-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11457","title":{"rendered":"Rural North Carolina hospital uses Walmart clinic to ease pressure on ED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Megan Knowles for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Lumberton, N.C.-based Southeastern Regional Medical Center, a 452-bed hospital in a rural county, is looking to its Walmart urgent care clinic to avoid straining emergency departments with nonemergency care,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcarolinahealthnews.org\/2018\/09\/07\/rural-hospital-has-patients-headed-to-walmart-for-their-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Carolina Health News<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reports. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/eds\/rural-north-carolina-hospital-uses-walmart-clinic-to-ease-pressure-on-ed.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7802\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Megan Knowles for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Lumberton, N.C.-based Southeastern Regional Medical Center, a 452-bed hospital in a rural county,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11458,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions\/11458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}