emergency medicine

The group representing emergency physicians and other healthcare organizations say emergency department boarding has reached "a breaking point."

Violators could get booted from the prestigious Boston hospital.

In a new study, deaths in U.S. emergency departments were estimated to account for 11.3% of total deaths from 2010...

Thanks to popular media, the public may think that physicians and nurses who specialize in emergency medicine are the only...

According to researchers at UCLA, patients using telehealth for follow-up care after ED discharge were more likely to return to...

John Couris shares lessons learned from Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in Florida at the end of September.

Paul C. Hiltz, president and CEO of Naples-based NCH discusses the health system's response to the cataclysm.

New studies show increased boarding of patients in emergency departments and more patients leaving emergency rooms without being seen.

The health system recently added its 12th participating hospital to the TeleEmergency service and plans to add another hospital soon.

Violence in the emergency department not only poses a threat to employees, but it harms patient care, doctors say.

Research shows patients are more willing to utilize emergency services when unexpected bills are not a concern.

The soon-to-be shuttered hospitals in southeastern Pennsylvania, owned by Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc., will reopen as outpatient and behavioral health...