Urgent Care vs. Emergency Room during viral illness surge
Our region is seeing a surge in sickness, including the flu. If you're sick, you may be heading to the urgent care or ...
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With long patient waiting list, new Caring Health Center facility opens in Springfield
Previously the site of the VCA Boston Road Animal Hospital, the property at 1235 Boston Road was acquired by Caring Health ...
Free-standing ERs are popping up all over South Florida. Don’t confuse them for urgent cares
Free-standing emergency rooms are popping up all over South Florida, extending the reach of hospitals into fast-growing ...
'Patients are dying in the corridor. A mother is holding her dead little girl - and an 87-year-old with cancer has been in a chair for 14 hours.' The secret diary of one A&E ...
Even though there's no hope, protocol insists we must make an attempt at resuscitation before declaring the child dead. She's ...
A&E is full of people dying, then someone threatens 'I'll follow you home'
In a culture where putting up with abuse and violence is seen as ‘just part of the job,’ attacks on NHS workers are regular.
A&E so full crash team couldn't reach man going into cardiac arrest in wheelchair
A nurse has given a harrowing account of the state of A&E at the hospital at which she works - as a separate investigation ...
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Man’s death prompts staffing change in city ERs
The Manitoba government has taken interim staffing measures in emergency rooms since a 49-year-old patient died while waiting ...
Charter challenge of Ontario's controversial long-term care law thrown out by court
An Ontario court has thrown out a Charter challenge of a controversial long-term care law that allows hospitals to move ...
'We are putting people in danger,' official says about Horizon's long-term care patients
A shortage of nursing home beds in New Brunswick is endangering the lives of hospital patients, warns the chair of Horizon ...
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UMass Memorial’s two-week-old $220-million facility alleviating strain on ER
In the two weeks since UMass Memorial Medical Center held the grand opening of its $220-million acute-care facility the North ...
Shock testimony of NHS nurse reveals harrowing reality of A&E today - from men dying in wheelchairs to women lying in soiled sheets
When I had last set eyes on the man who had been brought in with a suspected heart condition, he was wedged in a wheelchair ...
NHS nurse lays bare grim reality of A&E today as man dies in his wheelchair
An NHS nurse has shared their harrowing testimony at the state of A&E, recalling recent tragedies including the death of a man in his wheelchair following a cardiac arrest ...