A staff attorney for the D.C. Nurses Association, which represents nurses, said Washington, D.C.-based United Medical Center has continued to perform labor and delivery operations despite closure of the hospital's labor and delivery ward last August, The Washington Post reports.
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A family is calling for stricter patient-discharge rules after their son, who had a history of mental illness, was killed by a car Sunday night after he signed himself out of Lakewood, Colo.-based St. Anthony Hospital, reports KDVR.
Beaumont, Texas-based Baptist Hospital opened a triage outside its emergency room to help flu patients avoid long ER wait times, according to a KMBT report.
An emergency department program focused on geriatric transitional care reduced older patients' risk of unnecessary hospitalization by 33 percent at Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to a study published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown, Ky., completed a $15 million emergency department expansion to better serve the 70,000 patients who visit its ER each year, according to The News-Enterprise.
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An elderly patient's emergency room visit often signals a major health challenge and should communicate to care providers the patient may need additional care, according to a report in The Washington Post.
Birmingham, Ala.-based UAB Hospital cancelled and rescheduled nonemergency elective surgeries requiring hospitalization due to the influx of flu cases, reports WBRC.
Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth's Yampa Valley Medical Center in Steamboat Springs, Colo., plans to build two safe rooms by mid-February to improve emergency room care for patients with mental health issues, according to a Steamboat Pilot & Today report.
Leaders at Washington, D.C.-based United Medical Center allegedly planned to close the hospital's obstetrics ward before district regulators ordered a 90-day shutdown of the ward over safety issues, according to confidential documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Two security guards fatally shot a patient who pushed his way out of a treatment room and refused to drop two knives at St. Louis-based Barnes-Jewish Hospital on Thursday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.