Dahlonega, Ga.-based Chestatee Regional Hospital was forced to evacuate early March 18 after a tanker truck carrying liquid oxygen flipped near the hospital, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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At least six people were killed and 10 trauma victims transported to Miami's Kendall Regional Medical Center for treatment after a pedestrian bridge collapsed near Florida International University, according to The New York Times.
An ambulance carrying a patient crashed in Vermilion, Ohio March 15, killing the patient and injuring the ambulance's two emergency medical technicians, according to a WJW report.
The Department of Veterans Affairs inaccurately recorded wait times for 38% of new patient appointments scheduled in 2017, according to the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General internal audit published March 13.
A patient with a fractured skull was reportedly made to wait nearly three hours for transfer to Hudson, Fla.-based Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point Feb. 15 after physicians at Medical Center of Trinity (Fla.) could not provide adequate care, according…
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UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Humana and other health insurance stocks dipped March 12 following a Wall Street Journal report stating the insurers boosted Medicare payments by gaming the Medicare Advantage plan rating system, Insider Louisville reports.
Community Medical Center Long Beach (Calif.), which is slated to close within the next four months, has stopped accepting emergency room patients receiving advanced life support care form paramedics, according to The Grunion.
The National Quality Forum created a new guidebook to help providers prescribe opioids safely amid the nation's ongoing opioid epidemic, according to a March 8 release.
A sewage leak forced St. Charles Medical Center-Bend (Ore.) to cancel elective surgeries and left patients without water to shower or flush toilets for several hours March 6, according to The Bulletin.
UnitedHealth Group's insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare, changed its emergency department reimbursement policy for commercial and Medicare Advantage plans.