UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital in Madison, Wis., is testing out an “admissions unit” — a waiting area where emergency room patients needing admission are medically monitored until a bed is open, according to a July 11 report from ABC affiliate WKOW…
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital moved up the date it will end childbirth services by about three weeks, with the care ending abruptly at the end of July 11, according to the Times Leader.
At least one hospital in Vermont postponed elective surgeries, and staff at multiple hospitals in the state slept at work overnight as historic flooding batters the region.
In a letter to Trinity Health and the Saint Alphonsus Health System, Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon urged them not to stop a hospital’s maternity services as planned but continue services for at least six months.
Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital, part of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, will discontinue an overnight ambulance tour that operates south of the Huguenot neighborhood on the South Shore of Staten Island, a hospital spokesperson con…
Reduced waiting times, more emergency department beds and a better patient experience are just a few of the benefits two U.S. hospitals have seen since opening ‘discharge lounges.’
Emergency department workers are raising alarms about boarding levels remaining high in hospitals and systems even as COVID-19 cases decline, and on June 21, they categorized the situation as a crisis.
Adena Regional Medical Center in Chillicothe, Ohio, has implemented several changes since the start of the year that have lowered the average emergency department wait time to between five and six minutes.
The Tennessee attorney general’s office, which is looking into transgender healthcare practices and “potential medical billing fraud” at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., secured more than five years of a transgender patients’ m…
St. Luke’s University Health Network, based in Bethlehem, Pa., has established the St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital — an effort to consolidate pediatric care at the health system’s Fountain Hill, Pa., campus, according to a June 20 Lehigh Valley News rep…
