Interdisciplinary study reveals health care costs of extreme heat

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heat work

  • Almost 400 additional ambulatory care visits for heat-related illness.
  • Almost 7,000 additional emergency department visits, including more than 4,600 visits for heat-related or heat-adjacent illness.
  • Almost 2,000 extra heat-related hospital admissions, mostly for heat-adjacent illness.

Heat takes a toll

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