U.S. hospitals try to pick up the ER pace
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - It's the sort of promotion you might expect from a pizza delivery chain, not a U.S. hospital system.
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It's a new way to push for patient safety: Don't pay hospitals when they commit certain errors. Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail.
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Patients seeking urgent care in U.S. emergency rooms are waiting longer than in the 1990s, especially people with heart attacks, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Because of a shortage of beds at Maryland psychiatric hospitals, a growing number of patients, including many who are involuntarily committed, are spending days in emergency rooms, often in violation of a state law that mandates that they be placed at a comprehensive care facility within 30 hours of...
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggerâs recent relaxation of nursing-to-patient ratios have local health officials elated but provides little relief for a public hospital already
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An emergency room might be the last place you'd think would have do-it-yourself check-in. But Parkland Memorial Hospital has three self-service computer kiosks, similar to those used by airport passengers and hotel guests. And so do a handful of other hospital ERs, where the long wait in line to register and explain symptoms can be grueling.
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The struggles of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta are emblematic of the crippling effect Americaâs health care crisis has had on public hospitals around the nation.
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Much of the racial and ethnic differences in the care given to patients hospitalized with a heart attack can be explained by the quality of the hospital to which patients
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BY LAW, hospitals provide free emergency care for illegal immigrants. But the costs are bruising, and pending federal regulations could scare away patients.
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As New York's population ages, several hospitals use house calls to improve care.
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The U.S. government posted mortality data on Thursday for the nation's thousands of hospitals for heart attacks and heart failure, in an effort to shed light on which hospitals provide the best care.
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An emergency room might be the last place you'd think would have do-it-yourself check-in.
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From an emergency department with faulty monitors, IV pumps and broken stretchers to an operating room running part time for lack of staff, patient care is increasingly limited and uncertain at Greater Southeast Community Hospital, according to a draft report by District health regulators.
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Emergency rooms at many hospitals are routinely stretched to the breaking point, raising concerns that they would not be able to handle victims during a terrorist attack or natural disaster, according to congressional testimony yesterday and a new federal study.
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even at some of the most reputable hospitals in the nation -- does not necessarily translate into longer life or better health and may in fact leave patients
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With a third of the nation&#39;s 5,000 hospitals losing money and another third just breaking even, 2005 will continue to be a stressful year for hospital finances.
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When patients in the hospital suddenly go into cardiac arrest, the staff often takes too long to respond, increasing the risk of brain damage and death, a new study finds.