Patient Safety & Outcomes

Many emergency room patients facing long waits at crowded California hospitals are leaving before their care is complete, according to a California Healthline report.

More patients are leaving emergency departments in California against medical advice, which may be due to ED overcrowding, according to state data cited by California Healthline.

Cancer patients with short-term health plans will likely face high out-of-pocket costs and coverage denials, the American Cancer Society said in a May 13 report.

Hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin received at least 37 patients affected by an ammonia spill in Beach Park, Ill., according to the Lake County News-Sun.

In late August 2017, Joseph Hockett II deposited more than $33,000 into his bank account after Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina reimbursed him for emergency care. Days later, Mr. Hockett, who struggled with addiction, used the money…

A 45-year-old man fatally shot himself April 3 at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, reports the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Emergency response dispatchers in Rhode Island seldom instruct callers on how to perform CPR, which could save hundreds more cardiac arrest victims annually, according to ProPublica.

An ambulance broke down in Hawaii while responding to a 911 call, and the patient died on the scene, reports KHON2 News.

A patient shot and wounded a physician at West Palm Beach (Fla.) VA Medical Center on the evening of Feb. 27, according to NBC News.

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.