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Research: 1 in 4 Child Deaths After ER Trip Are Preventable

For minimal cost, experts say, hospitals could increase preparedness

(Newser) - For less than $12 per resident child, every state in the US could prepare its emergency rooms for the youngest patients in a way that would reduce deaths of children after a visit by 25%, researchers have found. A paper published Friday by JAMA Network Open says that more than...

ERs Turn Away Patients in Crisis, Without Penalty

AP finds feds don't go after ERs that do this, often to pregnant patients and in violation of federal law

(Newser) - As the pregnant woman's contractions rolled in every two minutes, staff at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dispatched an ambulance to send her elsewhere. Just two minutes later, she gave birth to a 6-pound baby girl in the cab of the ambulance...

Feds Say Hospitals Must Provide Emergency Abortions

Letter follows SCOTUS ruling in Idaho case

(Newser) - The Biden administration has told emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman's health. The move follows last week's Supreme Court ruling that failed to settle a legal dispute over whether state abortion bans override a federal law requiring hospitals to...

Former Surgeon General Gobsmacked by $5K ER Bill
Former Surgeon General
Stunned by $5K ER Bill
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Mar 3, 2024 4:15 PM CST

Former Surgeon General Stunned by $5K ER Bill

'The system is just broken,' says Jerome Adams

(Newser) - One might expect a cranky elderly relative to be stunned by the cost of a visit to the emergency room and flummoxed in navigating a recourse. One wouldn't expect the same of a relatively young and spry former surgeon general of the United States. Yet here we are . As...

Only 14% of US ERs Are Prepared to Treat Kids
Most Hospital ERs Aren't
Prepared to Treat Kids
investigation
Oct 8, 2023 5:20 PM CDT

Most Hospital ERs Aren't Prepared to Treat Kids

A report by the Wall Street Journal found that the consequences have been deadly

(Newser) - If a trip to the ER with a child isn't scary enough, Wall Street Journal now reports that many hospitals are not equipped to treat them properly. In an exclusive investigation, the paper found that only 14% of hospital emergency departments are certified to treat kids or are actually...

Cyberattack Forces Hospital ERs to Close

Locations in multiple states are affected

(Newser) - A cyberattack has disrupted hospital computer systems in multiple states, forcing some emergency rooms to close and ambulances to be diverted, and many primary care services remained closed on Friday as security experts worked to determine the extent of the problem and resolve it. The data security attack began Thursday...

Dog Walkers Are Ending Up in the ER in Droves
Dog Walkers Are Ending
Up in the ER in Droves
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May 6, 2023 4:50 PM CDT

Dog Walkers Are Ending Up in the ER in Droves

Researchers: Leashed strolls have led to 420K injuries over last 20 years or so

(Newser) - Dogs may be man's best friend, but they're also unintentionally sending a lot of their humans to the ER. That's the upshot of a new study out of Johns Hopkins, where scientists discovered that, over the past 20 years or so, more than 422,000 people in...

With No Options, Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms

Increasing demand for inpatient services and declining capacity shut at-risk adolescents out

(Newser) - Even before the coronavirus arrived, mental health disorders were increasing among the nation's adolescents, and the options for residential treatment care were declining. The pandemic compounded the problem, the New York Times reports. "Demand went up, supply went down," says Lisette Burton of the Association of Children’...

Woman Charged $100 Per Hour for Sitting in ER Waiting Room
Hospital Bills Woman 
$700 for 7-Hour ER Wait
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Nov 6, 2021 2:35 PM CDT

Hospital Bills Woman $700 for 7-Hour ER Wait

Georgia woman Taylor Davis left without being seen

(Newser) - For $100 an hour, Georgia woman Taylor Davis could have visited an upscale spa. Instead, that was how much she was charged for sitting in an emergency room, waiting to be seen. Davis tells Fox 5 that she went to the ER at Emory Decatur Hospital in July with a...

Critics Call UnitedHealthcare's New ER Policy Dangerous

Patients could be on the hook for visits later deemed to be nonemergencies

(Newser) - UnitedHealthcare says a new policy will reduce health care costs by reducing unnecessary emergency-room visits—but doctors warn there are some very obvious downsides to discouraging people from going to the ER. The policy the insurer is bringing in on July 1 will retroactively assess claims for emergency room visits,...

ER Doctor: My Honesty About COVID Got Me Fired

Cleavon Gilman tweeted about what he saw in Arizona

(Newser) - An Arizona ER doctor says he got fired after tweeting his frustration over hospital conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guardian reports. "Just got to work and was notified there are no more ICU beds in the state of Arizona," Cleavon Gilman tweeted in November about the Yuma...

Emergency Doctor at Hospital Facing Pandemic Kills Herself

Lorna Breen had seen horrific scenes during outbreak

(Newser) - An emergency room chief physician at a New York hospital who had described coronavirus patients dying in ambulances before they could be taken inside has died by suicide. Dr. Lorna Breen, 49, died Sunday, said her father, who discussed the toll the pandemic took on his daughter. "She tried...

Fear Keeps Non-COVID-19 Patients Away From Hospitals
Virus Takes Toll
on Other Patients
Apr 20, 2020 5:03 PM CDT

Virus Takes Toll on Other Patients

Fear of the coronavirus keeps many away from emergency rooms

(Newser) - Among the medical mysteries during the pandemic is one that doesn't involve COVID-19. Hospitals and doctors are wondering where all the patients who are seriously ill from other causes have gone, the Washington Post reports. A 700-bed hospital in Charleston has room for other patients but few takers. "...

Family's Coronavirus Sacrifice Catches Obama's Eye

Emergency physician with a newborn isolates himself

(Newser) - An emergency room doctor in Atlanta has put himself in isolation—in the garage—so he can keep treating coronavirus patients without putting his wife and children at risk. That kind of selflessness sets an example for the rest of us, former President Barack Obama said. Rachel Patzer, an epidemiologist...

She Waited for 2.5 Hours in the ER. She Didn't Survive

Fed-up Tashonna Ward left ER for urgent care, but she never made it in; she died a short time later

(Newser) - When you're sick or injured, you might head to urgent care first, then to the emergency room. But for a Wisconsin woman, a trip to the emergency room for chest pains and shortness of breath led to a lengthy wait, so she left the ER to go to urgent...

Dem Lied, Said She Was ER Doc in Pulse Shooting

C. Elizabeth McCarthy drops out of Florida House race after it's revealed that she's not even a doctor

(Newser) - C. Elizabeth McCarthy wanted to win a Florida House seat, and she was willing to tell voters a whopper to do so. As the Orlando Sentinel reports, McCarthy said at various campaign events for House District 28 that she was a medical doctor working the Orlando Regional Medical Center ER...

Teen Girl's Death at ER Remains a Mystery
Teen Girl's Death at ER
Remains a Mystery
THE RUNDOWN
May 23, 2019 12:06 PM CDT

Teen Girl's Death at ER Remains a Mystery

Chloe Ricard was dropped off at hospital, and now her family wants answers

(Newser) - By the time Chloe Ricard arrived at a Lawrence, Mass., emergency room, medical staff said there was nothing they could do. The 13-year-old from Amesbury was pronounced dead "shortly after arrival" at Lawrence General Hospital at 4:47pm Monday, according to the Essex District Attorney's Office. But what...

The Top ER Was Next Door. Her Ambulance Couldn't Go There

How the practice of diversion might have hurt Tiffany Tate

(Newser) - When David Tate got word that his sister had suffered a medical emergency at work, he rushed to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Tiffany Tate wasn't there. That didn't make sense to him, and for good reason: Tate suffered a stroke while working in the cafeteria at the...

Attorney: 'Blood on the Hands' of Cities That Allow E-Scooters

Injuries from the motorized devices now a daily problem in ERs

(Newser) - It felt like grains of salt floating around Earl Wilkinson's mouth. "In fact, they were teeth remnants"—the result of the 52-year-old's face-plant during an electric scooter crash. Wilkinson ended up in the emergency room with a broken arm in what BuzzFeed describes as a fairly...

Mother of 5 Nears Death Every Week—on Purpose

Lucia, an undocumented immigrant, has end-stage renal disease

(Newser) - Lucia nearly dies every Monday, and she does it on purpose. An undocumented immigrant, the 51-year-old isn't allowed to receive normal Medicare or Medicaid for her end-stage renal disease and waits until she's almost dead to admit herself into emergency care at Denver Health Medical Center, KDVR reports....

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