As they develop a cost-cutting plan, St. Albans, Vt.-based Northwestern Medical Center administrators also are planning a multimillion dollar emergency department expansion that will include new rooms for mental health patients, Vermont news website VTDigger reports.
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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.
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.
Among patients ages 65 and older, the rate of opioid-related hospitalizations jumped 34 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Hospitals in the Midwest are seeing a jump in frostbite cases and cold-related injuries as temperatures dip below freezing.
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The daughter of an 84-year-old woman with dementia filed a complaint against Long Beach, Calif.-based College Medical Center, claiming the hospital placed her mother in a cab and dropped her off outside of a locked assisted-living facility around 2 a.m.…
One in three people hurt in electric scooter accidents require treatment in an emergency room, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.
First responders in Texas are using a new technology system that helps lower the risk of human dosage errors when giving medicine, NBC-affiliate TV station KAGS reports.
Americans living in rural areas are far more likely to receive an opioid prescription than individuals living in big cities, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Jan. 18.
A 64-year-old man shot and killed himself at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., on Jan. 22, according to TV station WJLA, which cited a police report.