More hospitals hope for reprieve
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A further two hospitals in Scotland will find out if they have won a reprieve from radical health board plans.
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Dozens of hospital wards across the UK have been forced to close due to outbreaks of winter virus
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A group of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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Thousands of Medicaid recipients, in limbo for months as to whether they will lose health coverage, received another reprieve Thursday as lawyers for Medicaid and the governor&#39;s office
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Most physician-owned specialty hospitals are poorly equipped to handle medical emergencies, federal investigators will report today, underscoring a longstanding concern about the rapid rise in the number of such hospitals.
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Doctors  and weather forecasters work together to cut hospital admissions for chest patients.
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, run by Harvard physician Dr. Donald Berwick, will try to save 100,000 patients from fatal medical errors and poor care in the next 18 months by persuading hospitals to improve in six areas.
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Emergency rooms at U.S. hospitals are   becoming stretched as patient visits increase while the number   of emergency facilities declines, a new report said.
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Of The Morning Call If the fourth clinic doesn&#39;t finish off the supply, the nurses will take what&#39;s left to area nursing homes.
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There will be one fewer place for trauma patients to land when San Jose Medical Center closes in December. But Wednesday, county health officials were concerned about a much less dramatic, but more common
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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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Patients are waiting too long in many hospitals in England and are hidden from official figures, survey findings suggest.
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LOS ANGELES -- Already struggling financially because of patients who do not pay, the county&#39;s emergency rooms could face more money woes and crowding because of the flu vaccine shortage.
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One year after Hurricane Katrina tore   into New Orleans, the region's hospitals and nursing homes   remain devastated and uncertain of their ability to cope with   another disaster.
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Imagine making an emergency call not for help getting to the hospital but after you've already arrived there. That's what Ray Clement and his wife did last year at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Shadyside Hospital, where he had gone with a suspected blood clot. When Clement thought...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. Health officials hope to be able to open another trauma center in San Jose to replace one that is due to close next month.
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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.