Hospitals have taken heat for charging facility fees at their outpatient clinics. The practice of doling out facility fees—flat rates that cover overhead—to emergency department patients is far less ...

Specifically, the Chicago-based hospital wanted to heighten patient satisfaction in its emergency department (ED) and tabbed wait times as one area capable of enhancing the patient experience. In a ...

The authors created a machine learning–based model to identify patients with major depressive disorder in the primary care setting at high risk of frequent emergency department visits, enabling ...

Emergency rooms are the last functioning front doors to American healthcare. As an emergency medicine physician in one of America’s largest cities, I see firsthand how insurance denials stall ...

Managing visitors is a key aspect of hospital management, presenting several considerations for patient and building security, staff workflow, regulatory compliance, and patient privacy. Visitor ...

As a resident, David Yang took care of numerous survivors of sexual assault in the emergency department (ED). Often, he would ...

In a pair of new studies, Yale researchers document a widespread and increasing level of overcrowding in America’s emergency departments (EDs), a crisis that puts patient safety and access to care at ...

More patients who come to hospital emergency departments are waiting for hours to be admitted, often on gurneys in the hallways, and more are leaving before they even get seen by a doctor, according ...

The use of left-sided Impella microaxial flow pumps has expanded rapidly for the management of cardiogenic shock, left ...

In Oceanside, Mount Sinai South Nassau has unveiled its new trauma unit along with eight patient treatment rooms in its emergency department. This marks the completion of the second phase of the ...