Patient Safety & Outcomes

The emergency room at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, Calif., had several days where patient occupancy exceeded 100 percent this week after seeing a spike in patients with flu symptoms and respiratory problems, according to a KMPH report.

A man was shot on public property near the entrance of Washington D.C.-based George Washington University Hospital Tuesday night, reports Fox 5.

Edinburg, Texas-based South Texas Health System will open a freestanding emergency room in Edinburg Jan. 16, according to The Monitor.

Bedford (Va.) Memorial Hospital is set to complete an expansion that will increase the size of its emergency department by over 30 percent, according to The News & Advance. 

Police say a patient at Cleveland-based MetroHealth attacked and groped an emergency room nurse who was treating him, according to The Plain Dealer.

Minneapolis-based Hennepin County Medical Center — a  Level I Trauma Center across the street from the U.S. Bank Stadium, where Super Bowl LII will be held Feb. 4 — is developing an emergency plan to ensure access to the hospital…

Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, Calif., stopped accepting ambulances Thursday afternoon for non-trauma patients after seeing a spike in flu cases, according to a KCBS report.

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.

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.