Could emergency care be delivered outside the traditional setting of care? Amid the COVID pandemic, it's been among the biggest questions for Gregg Miller, chief medical officer at Vituity Healthcare which staffs emergency departments across the country. As a practicing emergency room doctor, he's witnessed major shifts in thinking about how — or more importantly, where — care can be delivered. "In emergency medicine, we’ve always thought of this specialty as being built around an emergency department," Miller said. "When you show up to work, you go in to an emergency department, you see patients in the emergency department. That is emergency medicine. We’re starting to break free of that constraint where emergency medicine can happen anywhere in a community."
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