Acute Care

A pair of state-specific studies suggest that, after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, emergency rooms saw more patients, while staffing fewer on-call specialists.

SPOT facility, professionals offer safe place to ride out high, seek new start for treatment.

Orlando Health and Florida Hospital will waive $5.5 million in costs and continue to help victims with financial assistance for follow-up care.

Geriatric ERs have the potential to lower health care costs as staff can more carefully discern who needs to be admitted and who can be cared for outside of hospital walls. That tends to reduce hospitalizations among the elderly.

Many people don't know about sepsis. Meanwhile, health care providers struggle to identify it early.

Instead of the usual "deny-and-defend" approach, they are revamping their policies to be more open.

Baptist Health South Florida is among numerous health systems in southern states that are at the epicenter of growing concern over the spread of the Zika virus.

Despite research that shows staying in bed can be harmful to seniors, many hospitals still don't put a high priority on making them walk.

The Minnesota Hospital Association released a study Friday that shows significant shortcomings in patients getting appropriate care for mental health issues in their hospitals.

Elderly and disabled Californians were less likely to go to the emergency room or be hospitalized after their in-home caregivers participated in an intensive training program, according to a report.