Sometimes, the waiting is the hardest part. You’re sitting in a crowded emergency room, sick or injured, wondering when they’ll call your name. Now you have a chance to go to the head of the line.

Plymouth, N.C.-based Washington County Hospital’s emergency room was out of commission for several hours April 4 when just one employee got sick, according to a local news report from WITN. The ...

Fraud related to hospital services – both inpatient and outpatient – has led to over $511 million in damages and hundreds of millions of dollars in False Claims Act (FCA) settlements over the past 15 ...

Syracuse, NY – The baby boy came into Upstate University Hospital’s emergency room screaming and struggling to breathe. “A very sick baby coming in,” the intercom crackled. He needed to get to the ...

Across Southern California, emergency room workers are primed for the wave of patients that pour in as heat waves like the current one drag into their second, third and fourth days. Heat takes an ...

The emergency room at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif., treated more than 200 patients during one day last week, a nearly 43 percent increase from the ER’s average of 140 patients a day, ...

Many people with mental health or substance use disorders experience stigma and perceived biases when seeking medical care—not directly related to their mental health—in a hospital Emergency ...

Jackson Memorial Hospital has pulled back the curtain on a sprawling new emergency department that doubles its ER footprint and is set to start seeing patients on April 23. At roughly 178,000 square ...