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Texas hospitals using a new strategy to ease crowded ERs
In Houston, the ER overcrowding problem has been the subject of several studies calling for revisions to the emergency...
Pittsburgh hospital renovates, expands its ER
A project at Pittsburgh-based St. Clair Hospital will increase the square footage of the emergency department from...
U.S. emergency rooms find ways to fix what ails them
Hospital emergency rooms are facing their own epidemic: Long waits. Patients spending hours or days on beds in ER...
Doctors call emergency care 'national disgrace'
The nation’s emergency care system is "a ticking time bomb," with demand far outstripping the capacity...
Emergency care report card bleak for Florida
Florida ranks dead last in a national report card rating access to emergency care, according to a study released by the...
Uninsured put a strain on hospitals
As increasing numbers of the unemployed and uninsured turn to the nation’s emergency rooms as a medical last...
Emergency room workers say problems are rampant
Doctors and nurses who work U.S. emergency rooms do not have much confidence in their safety and worry about working...
ER patients often left confused after visits
A vast majority of emergency room patients are discharged without understanding the treatment they received or how to...
Increased helicopter use eases patient load at LA County hospitals
A new plan that makes greater use of helicopters to distribute the seriously injured to hospitals across Los Angeles...
Average ER waiting time nears one hour, CDC says
The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost...