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

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

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.

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 ...

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 period ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...