Emergency care

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...