Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (JHBMC) is a 706-bed teaching hospital serving a population of >300,000 people. Over 12,000 ED patients are admitted annually, more than half to the department of ...

Hospitalizations account for the largest share of health care spending. New payment models increasingly encourage health care providers to reduce hospital admissions. Although emergency department (ED ...

The study findings were seen despite similar prior health status of patients and similar mortality rates. HealthDay News — Emergency department physicians show wide variability in their admission ...

Findings show no increase in emergency department length of stay or subsequent emergency department revisits. (HealthDay News) — A comprehensive assessment of older adults being seen in the emergency ...

A security officer stands by while LNA Karen Johnson works with mental health patients in a make-shift care area in a Concord Hospital Emergency Room hallway Thursday. In recent months and especially ...

If you visited an emergency department (ED) prior to the pandemic, you most likely don’t need to be told that ED crowding is a problem. It is visibly embodied by queues of ambulances outside hospitals ...

Your doctor should be your biggest advocate, doing what Ming Lin, an emergency medicine physician in Washington state, did at the peak of the Covid-19 surge in March: advocating for safer conditions ...

A union-linked investment group is demanding answers from HCA Healthcare after an analysis uncovered an alleged decade-long pattern of excessive emergency department admissions that may have netted ...

TOPLINE: Ionized hypocalcemia is seen in at least one in six pediatric patients with major trauma admitted to the emergency department (ED). Researchers performed a meta-analysis of three studies to ...

The Pembroke Regional Hospital (PRH) has introduced a new referral pathway that allows primary care providers to directly ...