Sandra Hall entered the HealthPartners Same Day Surgery Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, to fix arthritis in her left thumb. When she left, in an ambulance, she was unresponsive and her heartbeat was ...

Do you believe that improving patient comfort results in better care? You’re not alone. Comfort plays a vital role in establishing a reassuring healthcare environment—one that encourages an ...

The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania in which officers cannot use leg restraints to secure individuals from jail on a visit to the hospital because of a 2022 referendum. Sheriffs ...

It’s not the number of people in the hospital’s waiting room ‒ it’s the logjam in the hallways and the patients stuck in beds upstairs waiting for a transfer to rehab or a nursing home. “It’s bad for ...

Introduction Hospital readmission is a burden to patients, relatives and society. Older patients with frailty are at highest risk of readmission and its negative outcomes. Objective We aimed at ...

When hospital beds are scarce, patients “board” in the emergency department until an inpatient bed becomes available. Using national data on 46.2 million hospitalizations, 2017–24, we ...