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Nurses at Michigan Medicine voted to authorize a three-day strike “to protest ongoing and continuous violations of their workplace rights”
Danny Jay Williamson was charged with second-degree battery after allegedly cutting a paramedic with a knife at a Little Rock hospital
A federal report found that care related to sepsis was the most common reason given for transfers of nursing home residents to hospitals
Rosie’s Hugs began two years ago as a way to bring comfort to scared and sick children at two local emergency rooms
Despite attempts to steer patients away from the emergency room, visits have increased by 44 percent since 2006
Henry Ford Allegiance Health staged a full-scale emergency exercise of a mass shooting designed to test its response, and the response of several other agencies
A panel of doctors, nurses and patients recommended doctors prescribe far fewer opioids for 20 common surgeries such as hysterectomies and breast surgeries
Officials said Pamela Cash grew impatient while waiting for relatives to pick her up and decided to drive home in the ambulance
The 106,000-square-foot, 14-bed hospital is being built to hurricane design specifications established by Miami-Dade County—some of the strictest in the country
Community Howard paramedics will visit discharged patients with chronic heart diseases with the goal of positively impacting the patient’s transition
Officials said the paramedicine program will test how follow up from a paramedic will improve the health outcomes of hospital patients once they return home
Good Samaritan saw 58,817 ER visits at its main campus in 2016, and now those patients will have to reroute to surrounding emergency rooms
The paramedics were transported to the hospital after an unknown male suspect threw a brick through an ambulance window
“Of course, everybody of all ages get hurt, but the ones who get sick often tend to be the elderly,” nurse Wesley Milum said
A new electronic system has reduced the amount of opioids the department ordered by nearly 46 percent in the past two years
Julie Booth keeps a closet stocked with children’s clothing after repeatedly seeing children get discharged with nothing to wear home
Police said Johnny Kimbrough was arrested for stealing the Providence Fire Department ambulance from outside of a hospital and driving it to Connecticut
The hospital sees a paramedicine program as a way to cut down hospital readmissions, which are reimbursed at a lower rate by Medicare and Medicaid
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The crash occurred when a driver failed to yield, and then jumped out of the car and fled from the scene
Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center announced they are consolidating with another hospital, and fire officials expect this to increase response time
The state is now considering a bill to give paramedics the same authority that police have to direct patients to the facility best suited to treat them
The Wayne Township Fire Department ambulance was transporting a patient when it was involved in a head-on collision
The unidentified man had to be extricated from the ambulance after police found it overturned on the road
The American Academy of Pediatrics found that the number of children between the ages of 8 and 13 visiting ERs for concussions has doubled
Kayden, 3, is in the hospital after a teen crashed into the ambulance he was being transported in, and his mother Alexis said she’s not sure he’s going to make it
Dr. Scott Weiner’s PreManage ED project aims to coordinate better care for “high risk and complex patients” who regularly visit several ERs
VA patient Robin Harrison said she waited two hours with debilitating stomach cramps before calling 911
With an increasing amount of people using Uber as an ambulance to get to the ER, Uber drivers stress that they are not trained to handle emergencies
The mobile stroke unit is a custom-built ambulance outfitted with a physician clinic, which can provide mobile stroke diagnostics and treatment services
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