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Boarding increased at every Grady-area hospital. The state has not commented.
Emergency-department hold times — the interval between an admission decision and a patient leaving the ED for an inpatient bed — rose an average of 8% across all major Atlanta-area hospitals in Q1, according to data compiled by the Georgia Hospital Association and reviewed by Scrubswire.
The Georgia Department of Community Health, which would normally publish state-level rollups, has not commented and has not released its quarterly briefing on time.
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