Blank Children’s Hospital ER sees record high visits
DES MOINES, Iowa — Blank Children’s Hospital’s emergency room has seen record high visits of children with winter illnesses ...
JD Supra3d
The Emergency Room—The Front Door to the Hospital (Fraud Schemes)?
Fraud related to hospital services – both inpatient and outpatient – has led to over $511 million in damages and hundreds of ...
Most U.S. hospital emergency rooms aren't prepared to treat children, study finds. Why?
A recent study of 4,840 emergency departments in the U.S. found that only 17.4% of ERs had a high level of readiness to treat ...
Man accused of exposing himself in Aiken hospital emergency room
Aiken Department of Public Safety officers arrested Lester Jackson Padgett Jr., 67, on an indecent exposure charge. He's ...
Hospital security under scrutiny after 2 health-care workers stabbed at Halifax ER
A day after two health-care workers were stabbed in the emergency department of a Halifax hospital, the head of the ...
Daily Herald5d
Emergency room bypass rates spiked last year at area hospitals
Hospitals in the Chicago area diverted ambulances from emergency rooms last year at a rate almost double the year before.
A rise in communicable diseases increases ER wait times at Christiana Hospital
Christiana Hospital in Stanton is overrun with cases of COVID-19, RSV, and other communicable diseases, creating long waits ...
Modern Healthcare2d
Hospital-at-home alternatives score with some providers
Some hospital-at-home alternative are entirely virtual, while others don't require patients to visit a hospital first.
Hospital security lapses questioned as victim sues over alleged assault by fellow patient
The resident tells me that she wants to see Saint Francis protect their patients, because what happened to her in February ...
‘A crime scene’: 3 hospital workers hurt by patient at Halifax emergency room
Three employees at the QEII Emergency and Trauma Centre in Halifax were hurt by a patient Wednesday in what Nova Scotia's ...