As emergency room doctors nationwide plead for help to ease patient overcrowding, the one federal program that could fix the crisis is poised to lose funding. Across the U.S., ER patients who need to ...

St. Joseph Hospital's Emergency Clinical Decision Unit also frees up the emergency department to triage other patients. Orange County Register: ER Program For Homeless Patients In Mental Distress ...

COLUMBIA — Boone Health debuted a new program Wednesday designed to help reduce emergency room wait times. The Rapid Care program was implemented in response to a rise in ER patients in recent months.

Case program modeled after similar initiative in Camden%2C N.J. Model aims to move patients from the hospital to outpatient care and ensure they get other services they need Studies have shown having ...

In 2015, a nonprofit that helps house hundreds of New Yorkers who have a mental illness or are homeless began hiring nurses to handle non-emergency and preventative care. As a result, avoidable visits ...

The man came into the emergency room at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange on a busy evening, in the throes of a full-blown panic attack. He was delirious and suicidal. Homeless at 60, he had a long ...

A California hospital has introduced an innovative "time-banking" program that aims to prevent emergency room doctors from burnout and lead more balanced lives, according to an article in The ...

Nashville (Tenn.) General Hospital has launched a “no-wait ER” program that reduces the time patients wait to receive care to four or five minutes, wkrn.com reported July 8. The “no-wait ER” program ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Nueces County Judge's Committee was formed to try and save the Emergency Medicine Residency Program currently housed in the CHRISTUS Health System, but now, Nueces County ...

As emergency room doctors nationwide plead for help to ease patient overcrowding, the one federal program that could fix the crisis is poised to lose funding. Across the U.S., ER patients who need to ...