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Top Experts in Emergency Care Discuss Emerging Issues, Trends and Challenges American College of Emergency Physicians Releases New Poll that Examines Increased ER Visits and Barriers to Cutting Testing, Costs WASHINGTON, April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released today by the American College of Emergency Physicians: What: Crisis in the ER: Rx for the Future Hosted by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), a national medical specialty society, this conference will outline the growing trends and challenges faced in our nation's emergency rooms, from increased visits to liability reform to technological advances.

WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The TIME Magazine article "How Healthcare Reform Could Hurt Doctor-Owned Hospitals" (7/13/09) correctly states that physician owned hospitals would be hurt by pending health reform legislation; however, there is little else in the article that can pass as anything more than incorrect assumption and innuendo says Physician Hospitals of America (PHA).Physician ownership of hospitals is not new and they are not "upstart competitors" as portrayed in the magazine.

WASHINGTON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals and Catholic Health Association announced an agreement with the White House and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) to reduce Medicare hospital spending by $155 billion.