Management Programs Keeping Asthma Patients Out of Emergency Rooms – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Management Programs Keeping Asthma Patients Out of Emergency Rooms
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Children's Health reports a nearly 50-percent reduction in emergency department visits for kids with a primary diagnosis of asthma due to the collective impact of dedicated asthma management programs, including technology similar to the asthma app, My …

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Emergency rooms test new ways to help minority children with uncontrolled … – Medical Xpress

Emergency rooms test new ways to help minority children with uncontrolled
Medical Xpress
The rates of asthma in children are unusually high in Chicago and the respiratory disorder disproportionately affects African-American children. To address the issue, Rush University Medical Center and six other major medical centers in Chicago are …

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As more children with asthma visit emergency rooms, Breathmobiles gasp for … – LA Daily News

As more children with asthma visit emergency rooms, Breathmobiles gasp for
LA Daily News
Besides the personal loss Garcia-Lloret feels, the end of the UCLA Breathmobile comes at a time when new data by Kaiser Health News shows that emergency room visit rates by children with asthma rose by 17 percent from 2005 to 2012 for those 5 older …

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OPINION: Freestanding emergency rooms: advice from a former asthma patient – Brooklyn Daily Eagle

OPINION: Freestanding emergency rooms: advice from a former asthma patient
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Between roughly 1985, when I had my first serious asthma attack, and 1995, when I had my last one, I must have been in the emergency room at least one a month. Because I moved around during that time, I became familiar with ERs in the Bronx (Jacobi), 

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