Many hospitals prioritize elective admissions over emergency room admissions due to financial incentives, which is a growing issue the healthcare industry must address, two ER physicians wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

Beverly Hills, Calif., is adding nurse practitioners to the city's paramedic crews as part of a one-year program to help reduce unnecessary emergency room visits, reports ABC 7 Eyewitness News.

At HIMSS19 in Orlando, FL, TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. ("TeleTracking") announced that it would be launching three new solutions to meet the evolving needs of health systems. 

University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago is dedicated to securing permanent housing for homeless individuals who repeatedly visit the hospital's emergency room as part of its Better Health Through Housing program, according to WBUR.

Overcrowding at Billings (Mont.) Clinic's emergency department has forced clinicians to set up patient beds in a conference room and hallways, reports the Billings Gazette.

DispatchHealth, a mobile urgent care provider that conducts house calls, teamed up with health technology company Philips for a pilot program that connects Arizona seniors with emergency in-home care.

An unexpected influx of patients in the last three months at the University of Vermont Medical Center's emergency department has prompted a formal complaint of negligent patient care to Vermont regulators, VTDigger reported.

Uber Health and ambulance services provider Ambulnz teamed up to enable healthcare providers to order non-emergency medical transportation for their patients.

Two paramedics pushed a patient in a stretcher across a mile of ice to reach SSM Health DePaul Hospital-St. Louis on Feb. 11, CNN reports.

Just one day after Phoenix-based Hacienda HealthCare announced plans to close its intermediate-care unit where a patient in a vegetative state gave birth, Arizona officials stepped in to keep the facility open, according to AZ Central.

Phoenix-based Hacienda HealthCare will close its 60-bed intermediate care facility where a patient in a vegetative state gave birth, according to Az Central.

A man was fatally shot while arguing with an individual he knew in the parking lot of Carolinas HealthCare System NorthEast in Concord, N.C., Feb. 6, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Eight people trying the "boiling water challenge" during the frigid Midwest temperatures the week of Jan. 27 were treated at  Loyola Medicine's burn center in Maywood, Ill., according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Northeast Georgia Health System plans to reopen Dahlonega, Ga.-based Chestatee Regional Hospital in July and start work on a nearby replacement hospital, according to The Dahlonega Nugget.

Emergency departments in Minnesota's Twin Cities region are seeing a flood of patients who injured themselves by slipping on ice Feb. 4, reports CBS Minnesota.

A 24-year-old employee of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore was shot twice outside an affiliated hospital Feb. 4, according to CBS Baltimore.

Although 170 people work in emergency medical services and transport at Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health, the system is about 10 percent understaffed in this department, CNBC reports.  

Shriners Hospitals For Children-Tampa will end inpatient care and focus on outpatient care instead, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Similar to many hospitals across the country, Valley Hospital, a 451-bed acute care hospital located in Ridgewood, NJ, has experienced declining inpatient volumes and associated revenues as more care is delivered in outpatient settings.

Hospitals in the Midwest are seeing a jump in frostbite cases and cold-related injuries as temperatures dip below freezing.