Hospital system officials urge patients with less than severe symptoms to seek care from their primary care physician or an ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists Illinois in the high category for flu cases, and across the Chicago area ...

Fraud related to hospital services – both inpatient and outpatient – has led to over $511 million in damages and hundreds of ...

A plan by AHN Westfield Memorial to pursue a designation change to “rural emergency hospital” is intended to strengthen the ...

BRAINTREE, Mass. — Some experts say it’s the worst flu season they’ve seen nationally in the last 15 years. In Massachusetts, ...

Dementia was more prevalent in older patients with some cancer types, and comorbid dementia in this population was associated with unplanned or unnecessary hospitalization.

The figures point to a long-term shift in the age breakdown of hospital admissions in England for assault by a knife or sharp ...

Health and social care chiefs will be told to focus £9bn of funding on keeping the elderly living independently at home ...

About 30 per cent of patients who require hospital admission are still waiting in emergency eight hours after arrival, according to the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Long wait ...

Physicians with higher admission rates were likely to order more diagnostic tests and their patients were likely to have longer hospital stays within 30 days of their ED visit.

Healthcare needs become more frequent and complex with age, often leading to unexpected hospital visits. As a result, medical ...

A cross-sectional analysis of 721 million emergency department visits found that 0.8% of patients left before medical ...