U.S. hospitals try to pick up the ER pace
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It&#39;s the sort of promotion you might expect from a pizza delivery chain, not a U.S. hospital system.
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NEW YORK  - People treated at high-quality hospitals are more likely to survive and less likely to develop complications, according to a new report on more than 5,000 US hospitals.
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Starting next month, intensive-care patients at Inova Alexandria Hospital will be monitored round the clock by more than doctors and nurses at their bedsides.
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PORTLAND, Maine - Whether it's blue or spotted or striped, the standard issue hospital gown is drafty and revealing. It's embarrassing for just about anyone who's spent a night in a medical center...
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The hospitals in Banda Aceh, Indonesia are overflowing with the wounded, sick and homeless. Doctors vow they can make room when necessary, but teeming wards and backlogged operating tables have restricted their efforts.
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Three groups of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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CHICAGO A medical accreditation group says too many patients are waking up during surgery and hospitals need to do more to prevent the incidents.
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CHICAGO -- Hundreds of hospitals around the country are joining the most ambitious project ever undertaken to give faster emergency room care to people suffering major heart attacks.
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In nearly a third of cases of sudden cardiac arrest in the hospital, the staff takes too long to respond, a study finds.
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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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An emergency room might be the last place you'd think would have do-it-yourself check-in.
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More than 98 percent of U.S. hospitals  are now reporting quality-of-care data for treating heart  attack, heart failure and pneumonia, the Centers for Medicare  and Medicaid said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - 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 are admitted, rather than racial bias, a new  study indicates.
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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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Millions of people with chest pain enter emergency room limbo, spending up to 24 hours waiting for tests to tell if a heart attack really is brewing or if it's something less dire.
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BUFFALO, NY A growing number of hospitals are adopting &quot;enhanced intensive care&quot; technology -- or &quot;eICU.&quot;. The technology allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals
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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...