Latest Emergency department Stories

First Choice Emergency Room Expands with Ninth Facility in the Houston Area Flower Mound, TX (PRWEB) January 18, 2013 First Choice Emergency Room, the leading freestanding emergency room system in the United States, announced that it will open a new location in Katy, Texas in mid-February. First Choice Emergency Room is revolutionizing the delivery of emergency medical services for adult and pediatric emergencies, both major and minor. Patients are seen almost immediately by...

MIAMI, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ER Texting, a provider of turnkey text message services to the healthcare industry, announced that their client, Miami Children's Hospital (MCH), recently won the Florida Hospital Association's Mark of Excellence Award for Web-based Marketing. MCH received the award for its incorporation of texting as a way of communicating urgent care center wait times to prospective patients. For the last two years, South Florida residents have been accessing...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TeamHealth has expanded its California presence through the acquisition of the practice of San Francisco Physicians Internationale, Inc., the physician group that provides services to the emergency department of San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, Calif. TeamHealth recently commenced services for this emergency department that cares for approximately 16,000 patients annually. "For more than 20 years, our physicians have...

John Ansohn, DO, FAAFP, FACEP Welcomed to His New Role Flower Mound, TX (PRWEB) January 04, 2013 First Choice Emergency Room, the leading freestanding emergency system in the United States, announced Dr. John Ansohn as the new DFW/Austin Medical Director. Dr. Ansohn joined First Choice Emergency Room in 2011. He has practiced emergency medicine for over 17 years, initially practicing full-time at Baylor Regional Medical Center, Grapevine. Dr. Ansohn has provided EMS direction and...

KIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Last fall, Mill Creek resident and avid marathoner Jeff Knakal experienced a sudden weakness on the right side of his body and had difficulty speaking. His wife recognized the symptoms as signs of a stroke, and called 911. When he arrived at the EvergreenHealth Medical Center emergency department, the hospital's award-winning team of stroke specialists got to work to diagnose the cause of the otherwise healthy man's symptoms. Knakal...

More Complex Care Provided in a Challenging Health Care Environment WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lack of stable medical homes and reduced inpatient capacity are key factors that could be responsible for a shift toward higher billing levels over the past decade in U.S. emergency departments, according to a new report from the New England Journal of Medicine (http://tinyurl.com/d2fnsyh). Changing standards of care and the implementation of electronic medical...

CHICAGO, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MedSpring Immediate Care, a leading provider of quality immediate health care, today announced the opening of two new centers in the Chicago area. Located in Arlington Heights at 902 W. Dundee Road and in Naperville at 1190 S. Naper Boulevard, these two centers mark MedSpring's entry into the Chicago area. Outside of Chicago, MedSpring serves patients at 11 other centers across Austin and Houston and earns an average patient rating of...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Massachusetts' 2009 ban on ambulance diversion not only did not increase emergency department length of stay or ambulance turnaround time but may actually have led to improvements in both areas, according to a study published online today in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("The Effect of an Ambulance Diversion Ban on Emergency Department Length of Stay and Ambulance Turnaround Time"). http://tinyurl.com/bph7byr (Logo:...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Non-urgent emergency department patients who were escorted to and assigned a personal physician on the hospital premises increased their contact with primary care physicians over the space of a year but did not significantly decrease how often they visited the ER. Despite strict guidelines on which patients were classified as "non-urgent," 10 patients were ultimately admitted to the hospital, according to the results of a study...

Physicians available 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, offering convenience and lower costs. Austin, TX (PRWEB) December 18, 2012 MedSpring Urgent Care, a leading provider of quality urgent health care, today announced the opening of a new center located at 208 West Ben White Boulevard, half a block west of the intersection of South Congress and Ben White Boulevard. This marks the opening of the sixth Austin urgent care for MedSpring since August 2011. MedSpring centers have doctors on-site from 9...