During the last three weeks, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield Memorial Hospital and Adventist Health Bakersfield in Bakersfield, Calif., have seen surges in emergency room visits for respiratory-related ailments as smog hangs over the city, according to Bakersfield.com.
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The Memphis VA is investigating a veteran's condition after his health appeared to decline while waiting in the hospital's emergency room the week of Dec. 18, according to a FOX13 report.
Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., received $2.5 million from an anonymous donor to fund a behavioral health zone inside its emergency room, according to The News & Observer.
Chautauqua County, N.Y., launched an emergency fly car system, which has responded to 365 calls for assistance since its operation began in August, according to The Observer.
A man escaped from the emergency room at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Ore., Monday morning and stole three vehicles while evading police, according to a KVAL report.
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Fort Walton Beach (Fla.) Medical Center unveiled a rooftop helipad Monday, the first of a three phase, $20 million emergency room expansion, according to a Northwest Florida Daily News report.
Norton Healthcare and Jewish Hospital, both located in Louisville, Ky., delayed or canceled surgeries after a water main break Tuesday morning lowered water pressure at the facilities, the Courier Journal reports.
Massachusetts emergency room physicians are seeing a number of patients with a syndrome linked to regular marijuana use after state laws decriminalized medical marijuana in 2012 and recreational cannabis last November, according to the Boston Herald.
Two toddlers were hospitalized last weekend after ingesting heroin in two unrelated incidents that occurred just hours apart in New York City's Bronx neighborhood, according to a report from ABC News.
Uninsured adults use emergency rooms at similar rates to insured adults, contrary to popular perception, according to a recent Health Affairs study.