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Court-prompted changes ease emergency room boarding crisis

By Holly Ramer Jun. 07, 2021 05:03 PM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — No adults were waiting in New Hampshire emergency departments for inpatient psychiatric care Monday for the first time in 14 months. ...

State investing up to $100M in mental health services

By Kathy Mccormack And Holly Ramer Jun. 03, 2021 10:24 AM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The state of New Hampshire is investing up to $100 million in mental health services following a recent state Supreme Court ruling to help...

A free-standing emergency room, one of nine owned by UCHealth and part of the University of Colorado, is seen in the Denver suburb of Arvada, Colo., on May 16, 2021. The health system has converted 10 other stand-alone emergency rooms into other uses, mostly primary care or urgent care centers, in the past two years. (Markian Hawryluk/Kaiser Health News via AP)
Colorado offers to pay hospitals to close free-standing ERs

By Phil Galewitz May. 24, 2021 12:12 PM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2016, file photo, a woman walks past a sumo mural at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, Japan's national sumo stadium, in Tokyo. A Japanese sumo wrestler died of acute respiratory failure Wednesday, April 28, 2021, after suffering a head injury during his bout in a tournament last month, in a case that brought sumo’s emergency response into question. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Sumo wrestler dies month after falling on head during bout

By Mari Yamaguchi Apr. 30, 2021 01:51 AM EDT

Dr. Felicia Ivascu, chief of Surgical Critical Care at the William Beaumont hospital is interviewed, Wednesday, April 21, 2021 in Royal Oak, Mich. Michigan has become the current national hotspot for COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations at a time when more than half the U.S. adult population has been vaccinated and other states have seen the virus diminish substantially. "With this current surge we're seeing much younger patients. It proves this disease continues to change and continues to be deadly. It seems to be unpredictable" says Dr. Ivascu. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Michigan became hotspot as variants rose and vigilance fell

By Corey Williams, David Eggert And Lindsey Tanner Apr. 25, 2021 10:33 AM EDT

A member of staff passes in front of a collection of portraits of medical staff at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris, Thursday, April 22, 2021. France still had nearly 6,000 critically ill patients in ICUs this week as the government embarked on the perilous process of gingerly easing the country out of its latest lockdown, too prematurely for those on pandemic frontlines in hospitals. President Emmanuel Macron's decision to reopen elementary schools on Monday and allow people to move about more freely again in May, even though ICU numbers have remained stubbornly higher than at any point since the pandemic's catastrophic first wave, marks another shift in multiple European capitals away from prioritizing hospitals. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
Europe reopens but virus patients still overwhelm ICU teams

By John Leicester Apr. 24, 2021 02:33 AM EDT

Riders train at the National Velodrome at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, west of Paris, Saturday, March 27, 2021, that has been transformed into a mass vaccination center. Saturday marked the first day in France of vaccination for healthy people aged 70 and above. (AP Photo/John Leicester)
Paris doctors warn of catastrophic overload of virus cases

By John Leicester And Jeffrey Schaeffer Mar. 28, 2021 08:41 AM EDT

'Silver lining': Hospitals keep practices born in COVID rush

By Ted Shaffrey Mar. 11, 2021 04:34 PM EST
SYOSSET, N.Y. (AP) — As coronavirus surged in New York last year, officials at the state's largest hospital system realized their old way of transferring...

Medical staff check an empty ward, reserved for possible COVID-19 patients, at the Colentina Hospital in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. A year ago, Romania reported its first case of COVID-19, prompting the country's strapped medical system to turn its focus to treating COVID-19 patients. As a result, many patients with other conditions — including HIV but also cancer and other illnesses — have either been denied critical care or stopped going to their regular appointments, fearful of becoming infected.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Pandemic leaves many Romanian patients without critical care

By Nicolae Dumitrache And Stephen Mcgrath Feb. 26, 2021 02:18 AM EST

A boy who was involved in a motorcycle accident is transported to the hospital by Angels of the Road volunteer paramedics in their only ambulance in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. The volunteer corps relies on donated medical supplies and funding from international organizations to provide much-needed emergency services, operating entirely independent of the government. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Volunteer paramedics patrol streets of Venezuela's capital

By Scott Smith Feb. 16, 2021 10:58 AM EST

New Mexico tribe sues US over hospital closure amid pandemic

By Susan Montoya Bryan Jan. 29, 2021 05:34 PM EST
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico Indigenous tribe is suing the U.S. government, claiming that federal health officials have violated the law by ending...

Rules clarified for psychiatric patients in emergency rooms

By David Sharp Jan. 28, 2021 05:25 PM EST
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Psychiatric patients may not be held for extended periods in emergency rooms during an involuntary hospitalization without a judge being...

Volunteers from the Saaberie Chishty Society prepare the body of a COVID-19 victim, in Lenasia, South Africa, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. For more than 30 years, the Saaberie Chishty ambulance service has responded to medical emergencies in a tight-knit Muslim community in Johannesburg. Now, as COVID-19 sweeps through, the service has greatly expanded to offer oxygen and home care. Confronted by an increased number of deaths, it also provides safe body preparation and burial to assure that people are still buried according to Muslim tradition. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
South African Muslim group safely buries its virus dead

By Bram Janssen And Andrew Meldrum Jan. 26, 2021 03:06 AM EST

Emergency medical technician Thomas Hoang, left, of Emergency Ambulance Service, and paramedic Trenton Amaro prepare to unload a COVID-19 patient from an ambulance in Placentia, Calif., Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. EMTs and paramedics have always dealt with life and death — they make split-second decisions about patient care, which hospital to race to, the best and fastest way to save someone — and now they're just a breath away from becoming the patient themselves. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
In ambulances, an unseen, unwelcome passenger: COVID-19

By Stefanie Dazio Jan. 25, 2021 01:30 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2021, file photo, two nurses put a ventilator on a patient in a COVID-19 unit at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. U.S. hospital intensive care units in many parts of the country are straining under record numbers of COVID-19 patients. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
2 in 5 Americans live where COVID-19 strains hospital ICUs

By Carla K. Johnson And Nicky Forster Jan. 24, 2021 09:33 AM EST

Nurse Nerissa Black takes a selfie wearing protective gear at work on Dec. 13, 2020 at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif. Black was already having a hard time tending to four COVID-19 patients who need constant heart monitoring. But because of staffing shortages affecting hospitals throughout California, her workload recently increased to six people infected with the coronavirus. Overwhelmed California nurses are now caring for more COVID-19 patients after the state began issuing waivers that allow hospitals to temporarily bypass strict nurse-to-patient ratios. Nurses say the new workload is pushing them to the brink of burnout and affecting patient care. (Nerissa Black via AP)
California bypasses tough nurse care rules amid virus surge

By Olga R. Rodriguez Jan. 08, 2021 12:24 AM EST

In this photo provided by The Mendocino Voice, people line up outside the Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Medical Center, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, in Ukiah, Calif., to get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination during an emergency vaccine drive. A power failure for the freezer holding the county's ration of the Moderna vaccines forced the emergency distribution of 850 doses of that vaccine. (Jethro Bowers/The Mendocino Voice via AP)
California hospital, in midst of COVID-19 crisis, maxes out

By Brian Melley Jan. 05, 2021 12:00 AM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2020, file photo, medical workers prepare to manually prone a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. California surpassed 25,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic, reporting the grim milestone Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, as it continues to face a surge that has swamped hospitals and pushed nurses and doctors to the breaking point as they brace for an anticipated surge after the holidays. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Los Angeles mayor says virus spreading within households

By Christopher Weber Jan. 03, 2021 04:09 PM EST

In this Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020 photo, Gabriel Tachtatzoglou poses at his house in Agios Athanassios, outside Thessaloniki city, northern Greece.  Tachtatzoglou has worked as an ICU nurse in northern Greece for 20-years but when the pandemic struck his city in the fall, COVID-19 wards were quickly overwhelmed. He saw little choice other than to treat sick members of his family at home, setting up a treatment site with borrowed and rented medical machinery and using a hat stand to hold IV bags. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
Greek nurse erects ICU at home to treat relatives with virus

By Costas Kantouris Dec. 30, 2020 03:21 AM EST

Maine EMTs get coronavirus vaccine; Vermont courts go remote

By Patrick Whittle Dec. 26, 2020 10:21 AM EST
A look at coronavirus developments in New England: ___ MAINE Emergency medical technicians in...

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