1 in 20 ER Visits Involve Homeless People

From US News (link: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-04-30/1-in-20-er-visits-involve-homeless-people):

At major medical centers across the southeast, 1 in every 20 visits to emergency departments involve people who are homeless or face "housing insecurity," a new U.S. study finds.

Concerns of suicide was the leading medical reason bringing these types of patients to the ER and many were uninsured, said a team reporting recently in the journal JAMA Network Open.