City Hospitals Reinvent Role of Emergency
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New York hospitals are spending hundreds of millions of dollars rebuilding and expanding their emergency rooms.
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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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Even without road signs pointing the way to its door in Germantown, Maryland's only stand-alone emergency medical facility treated more than 22,000 patients in its first year -- about 30 percent more than initial projections and an impressive enough number to raise interest in its use as a model...
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Hospitals increasingly are expecting volunteer trustees to go beyond the role of community boosters and tackle an imposing medical issue: preventing errors that lead to patient injuries and deaths.
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BALTIMORE -- Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients' bedside?
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A new study on emergency rooms  disputes the common wisdom that the poor and uninsured are  filling them up.
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With more ill and injured people needing emergency care but do not speak English, hospitals, clinics and rescue squads are turning to picture boards to bridge the communication gap with easily understood images.
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By Jennifer L. Boen, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  Feb. 14--Parkview Health and Lutheran Health Network hospitals Tuesday night were operating under snow emergency protocols.   Code White was declared for Parkview, said spokesman Gary Penner.
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BAGHDAD -- In a city with few real refuges from sectarian violence -- not government offices, not military bases, not even mosques -- one place always emerged as a haven: a hospital .
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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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Three Montreal doctors have traded their rounds at hospital emergency wards for their own private medical emergency clinic. The MD-Plus Medical Clinic opened its doors on Tuesday.
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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.
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THERE WASN'T a whisper of opposition last week at the state Public Health Council as Massachusetts General Hospital presented its plan to replace some old buildings with a $498 million complex that will include a larger emergency department, 71 surgical suites, and 150 new beds. The council approved the plan unanimously, but the expansion raises the question of whether the ...
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At this city hall, there's a standard procedure for moving cubicles: IT gets the plans in advance to make sure power, phones and data will be handled properly. But one department has other ideas.
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Waiting in line is part of life in post-storm New Orleans, especially when it comes to health care.
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Patients queue in 11 ambulances for  up to an hour at Wales' largest hospital because of a lack of beds.
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Over 100 hospital wards closed amid fears that infection will spread