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As ER overcrowding worsens, a new program helping to ease the crisis may lose funding

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As emergency room doctors nationwide plead for help to ease patient overcrowding, the one federal program that could fix the ...

With one of nation’s ‘largest pools of geriatric patients,’ Palos Hospital focuses on emergency room elder care

A program to improve emergency care for older adults at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital received Geriatric Emergency ...
UPI

Study: AI programs might help ER overcrowding in hospitals

Artificial intelligence programs can help doctors and nurses predict hours earlier which ER patients will likely require hospital admission, a new study says. An AI program trained on nearly 2 million ...
STAT

Emergency medicine is grappling with a surprising problem: The prospect of too many physicians

While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field is trying to figure out how to manage a potential oversupply of physicians. The American College of ...
WMUR

Elliot Hospital’s ‘virtual ER’ allows patients to potentially avoid waiting room and save time

HOSPITAL IS HOPING TO HELP PATIENTS FAST.. WITH WHAT IT CALLS A "VIRTUAL E-R". THEY ROLLED IT OUT IN JANUARY, A CHANCE FOR EMERGENCY ROOM PATIENTS TO START THEIR CARE WITH A VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT AT ...
Pensacola News Journal

Ascension Sacred Heart, FSU partner up for ER doctor residency program

Ascension Sacred Heart-Florida State University partnership will help improve access to emergency care The three-year residency program will train a total of 45 emergency medicine physicians The ...
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As ER overcrowding worsens, a new program may help ease the crisis — if it doesn't lose funding

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 to ...