Why Patients Are Flooding Emergency Rooms

Emergency rooms are the last functioning front doors to American healthcare. As an emergency medicine physician in one of ...

How a $4M investment is transforming mental health emergency care at this N.J. hospital

To better help those in mental distress, Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital announced Wednesday that it’s using a $4 million ...

St. Luke’s opens its newly expanded Upper Bucks emergency department today

St. Luke’s University Health Network has completed a major expansion to St. Luke’s Hospital-Upper Bucks, doubling the size of ...
Psychology Today

Chest Pain in the Emergency Room

Millions of people go to the emergency room with chest pain and many feel disregarded and dismissed by healthcare ...

This Ontario ER built a separate waiting room for patients with mental health emergencies

Montfort Hospital's Mental Health Emergency Zone is a secure, calming area just off the main ER. It's purpose-built to ...
Newsday

Long Island emergency room visits now take nearly 4 hours — 75 minutes more than national average

A typical visit to a Long Island emergency room now takes just under four hours — 75 minutes longer than the national average — data that experts said shows hospitals are struggling with patient ...