As emergency room doctors nationwide plead for help to ease patient overcrowding, the one federal program that could fix the crisis is poised to lose funding. Across the U.S., ER patients who need to ...

Patients nearing the end of life who go to the ER may have to wait for hospice care until it is too late One hospital's push to speed the transition got patients supportive end-of-life care sooner ...

COLUMBIA — Boone Health debuted a new program Wednesday designed to help reduce emergency room wait times. The Rapid Care program was implemented in response to a rise in ER patients in recent months.

Artificial intelligence programs can help doctors and nurses predict hours earlier which ER patients will likely require hospital admission, a new study says. An AI program trained on nearly 2 million ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Nueces County Judge's Committee was formed to try and save the Emergency Medicine Residency Program currently housed in the CHRISTUS Health System, but now, Nueces County ...

One hospital's push to transition patients who are nearing the end of life from the emergency room to hospice care appears to be working. After the program went into effect, 54% of ER patients at ...

HOSPITAL IS HOPING TO HELP PATIENTS FAST.. WITH WHAT IT CALLS A "VIRTUAL E-R". THEY ROLLED IT OUT IN JANUARY, A CHANCE FOR EMERGENCY ROOM PATIENTS TO START THEIR CARE WITH A VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT AT ...