The busy ER reflects the challenges of opening a hospital amid a nursing shortage in an underserved community where residents face barriers to primary care.

That’s the unspoken promise of our health care system: when the worst happens, an ER will be there, no questions asked.

The newly renovated space at Morristown Medical Center includes 12 new patient rooms and three new private triage rooms.

The turnaround time for discharged patients across the health system went from a median of 192 minutes to 168 minutes.

In the television drama “The Pitt,” patients in a fictional emergency room in Pittsburgh are sometimes “boarded” in corridors for hours, even days, waiting for a hospital bed. Art, in this ...

Hospital bed capacity in the U.S. may not keep up. Between 2003 and 2023, the number of staffed hospital beds was static, even as emergency department visits shot up 30% to 40% over that same ...

About 1 in 3 kids who go to an emergency room (ER) amid a mental health crisis wait at least 12 hours to be transferred to psychiatric care, researchers report in the August 2025 issue of the Journal ...

The capacity of the hospital’s ER will go from 43 to 83, with 69 adult and 14 pediatric beds. According to the network, pediatric beds will be kept in a designated space separate from the rest ...

Update: One hospital has denied Dr. Jason McElyea’s claim that ivermectin overdoses are causing emergency room backlogs and delays in medical care in rural Oklahoma, and Rolling Stone has been ...

Regulators should target prior authorizations and underpayment to address emergency department boarding, experts said Tuesday ...

Connecticut ED doctors warn that growing patient boarding delays are straining hospital care, prompting new state efforts to ...

The Saskatoon City Hospital's emergency room will now be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. The move follows several ...