emergency care

Megan Miedema is a mother of two in Chicago. In October, she started to feel back pain but was hesitant to go to the doctor. She worried about getting…

In many states, emergency medical services are not considered essential, like fire or police. That means when you call 911, there’s no guarantee an…

One in four calls to the Washington, D.C., 911 line isn't an emergency. The city now has triage nurses working with dispatchers to get callers with less urgent needs a same-day clinic visit instead.

Indiana emergency physicians are concerned a new insurance policy to curb emergency department visits could scare away patients. The policy, already in…

On a cold morning last winter, Christopher Hinds says he woke up early, sick from withdrawal. He called a friend and they trekked across a highway,…

The nation’s second-largest insurer has stopped reimbursing emergency room visits it deems unnecessary in a handful of states.Starting last month in…

Doctors say when it comes to trauma, bleeding out is the most preventable cause of death – and it typically happens before patients even make it to the…

He thought it was pneumonia. Michael Trost, 52 and seemingly healthy, just wasn’t feeling right. During a chance break at work as a wood finisher, Trost’s…

Many historians have debated how our country might be different today if Lincoln had lived to see the country through the critical Reconstruction period…

The Cleveland Clinic has seen its Medicare penalties go down, while those paid by hospitals that serve many of Cleveland's poorer residents have gone up.