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With demand for ED beds surging as the nation's demographics, health care needs, and finances continue to change, a number of health systems across the country are opening stand-alone EDs — freestanding centers that are staffed by emergency physicians and deliver emergency care, but are not attached to a main campus or hospital facility.

Health systems turn to stand-alone EDs to handle surges in demand, bids for market share