{"id":3646,"date":"2016-02-01T12:58:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2016-02-02T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:35:08","slug":"bmc-receives-2-million-nih-grant-to-study-ambulance-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/2016\/02\/01\/bmc-receives-2-million-nih-grant-to-study-ambulance-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC Receives $2 Million NIH Grant to Study Ambulance Diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James Feldman,\u00a0Professor and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine, is co-principal investigator in a new study examining at the effect of ambulance diversion on the vulnerable patients that Boston Medical Center serves.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Feldman helped advocate for Massachusetts banning ambulance diversion state-wide in 2009. Massachusetts is the first and only state in the country to implement this policy.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/v2\/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=460162575&amp;m=461754122\">interview on NPR<\/a>, Dr. Feldman states that &#8220;we have strong evidence that people who have critical illness or injury who have delayed time to treatment do worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.org\/about\/news\/Boston-Medical-Center-receives-2-Million-Grant-from-National-Institutes-of-Health-to-Study-Impact-of-Ambulance-Diversion-on-Low-Income-Patient-Populations.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a> about the study and the NIH grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James Feldman,\u00a0Professor and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[35,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/emergencymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}