Patient flow management, adequate staffing levels and cost reductions are issues that hospital emergency departments deal with regularly. Recent studies have shown that emergency department visits are ...

A healthcare trend to offer in-home care, which provides urgent medical care in patient homes and saves emergency room costs, is picking up speed. Pittsburgh, Pa.-based UPMC, for example, launched an ...

Supporters of President Barack Obama's health care law had predicted that expanding insurance coverage for the poor would reduce costly emergency room visits as people sought care from primary care ...

Supporters of President Obama’s health care law had predicted that expanding insurance coverage for the poor would reduce costly emergency room visits as people sought care from primary care doctors.

Urgent care clinics are equipped to handle non-life-threatening illnesses, injuries and conditions. Here's how much urgent ...