To honestly confront the crisis of ER overcrowding, Connecticut lawmakers must weigh the promise of HB 6976 against its limitations. The bill is well-intentioned and, in some areas, necessary.

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 ...

It has been argued that there is an urgent need for a data-based 'regional customized strategy' to solve the problem of overcrowding in the emergency room. The Medical Policy Institute of the ...

ER overcrowding has become a public health crisis, experts say Cyndy McGrath, Ivanhoe Newswire Published: January 10, 2023 at 6:00 AM Updated: January 10, 2023 at 8:07 AM ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to American College of Emergency Physicians head Dr. Aisha Terry about why U.S. emergency rooms are overcrowded even after the end of the COIVD emergency.

The government must take action to relieve unprecedented overcrowding in hospital emergency rooms (ER), the Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine said on Saturday. The group said in a statement that if ...

ER on wheels aims to bring back house calls, reduce emergency room overcrowding 02:52. NORTH READING - Charles LoDuca of North Reading was stunned when he went to the emergency department at ...

The study was conducted in the ER of Hospital das Clínicas, which has 800 beds but is often so overcrowded that it holds double that number, some of whom stay for more than 11 days.

With ER overcrowding, it is hard to accept that a patient in a hospital bed, ready to be discharged to home or to a long-term care facility, waits for days to receive a diagnostic study, a piece ...

ER physicians begging lawmakers to help with overcrowded emergency departments Mental health patients are most affected, kept waiting the longest Courtney Friedman , Anchor/Reporter ...

At Strong hospital, work is underway to triple the size of the ER. It will open in phases beginning in 2026 and finish by 2028, but the crushing current demand has warranted more urgent action ...