Hospital facility fees are driving up health care costs in Houston — and catching the eye of lawmakers
The fees, which are billed separately from physician’s services, have been around for decades but have sparked nationwide ...
HCA opens its second emergency room in Lee County. What to know
HCA Florida Healthcare has opened a freestanding emergency room in Fort Myers. The location is 8919 College Pointe Court. It is a nearly 11,000-square-foot center that operates 24/7 with full ...
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Emergency room bypass rates spiked last year at area hospitals
Staffing issues and equipment failures also can lead hospital officials to put their ... Hospital officials don’t need permission to put an emergency room on bypass, but they do need to notify ...
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Most U.S. hospital emergency rooms aren't prepared to treat children, study finds. Why?
Is your local hospital prepared to treat your child in its emergency room? A recent study of 4,840 ... the procedures and the equipment to handle a child in an emergency, but there's no signage ...
Room mock-ups save time, money ahead of Geisinger's $880M expansion
Mock-ups of medical spaces have allowed Geisinger officials to find design flaws down to 3/4 of an inch prior to the construction of an 11-story tower. Since the hospital announced its plan to build ...
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Clinic center: Veterinary clinics expand their services
Freeport Veterinary Hospital in Maine has expanded its services to include same-day urgent care. “This new service aims to ...
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HCA opens its second emergency room in Lee County. What to know
The ER is operated by HCA Fawcett Hospital in Port Charlotte, which opened a similar freestanding emergency room in Cape Coral ... Advanced patient monitoring equipment Occupational healthcare ...
A Rural Hospital Defies the Odds and Turns Around - in 24 Months
WATKINSVILLE, GA / ACCESS Newswire / February 4, 2025 / Just two years ago, Washington County Regional Medical Center (WCRMC), a 56-bed hospital ...
The Florida Times-Union17d
Baptist Health plans $190M ER and patient tower at Southbank campus
"Our main campus provides care for more emergency patients than any other hospital in ... new Wolfson emergency room will have a child-centered design and specialized equipment, clinical protocols ...
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Eufaula’s only hospital receives crucial grant funding
The money will go towards basic necessities of MRI equipment at the hospital. “If you take the hospital average for the number of emergency room visits we have a month, and then divide that by ...
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Portland's DoveLewis expands with new state-of-the-art pet medical center
While the original DoveLewis hospital will continue operating its 24/7 emergency room and intensive care ... enabling DoveLewis to acquire new medical equipment and recruit additional veterinary ...
Major hospital chain with millions of patients brings back mask mandates
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - which treats millions of patients - has announced it will begin requiring face ...