Utah lawmakers want to raise the standards for freestanding emergency rooms around Utah
A bill that would set robust requirements for free-standing emergency rooms across the Wasatch Front advanced through the ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune22d
Sarasota Memorial opens new free-standing emergency room in Lakewood Ranch
Verinder said that when SMH opened the second free-standing emergency room in the state in 2009, it was a trend setter. Later this month, the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board will discuss ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation13d
Emergency wait times blow out as hospitals struggle to discharge patients
About 30 per cent of patients who require hospital admission are still waiting in emergency eight hours ... around them because there weren't any rooms free." He felt he would be better off ...
Free-standing ERs are popping up all over South Florida. Don’t confuse them for urgent cares
Free-standing emergency rooms are spreading all over South Florida, extending the reach of hospitals into fast-growing ...
NBC22d
Lee Health breaks ground on new state-of-the-art hospital in Fort Myers
Lee Health states the campus will create jobs, stimulate economic growth and ensure long-term health care access for the ...
'A Century of Caring': Sarasota Memorial Hospital starts celebration of 100th anniversary
SMH is installing a special, 35-foot timeline in the lobby of its Sarasota hospital and sharing its 100-year history book, “A Century of Caring,” featuring historic events and milestones that shaped ...
As States Diverge on Immigration, Hospitals Say They Won’t Turn Patients Away
California and Massachusetts are teaching immigrants their rights while Florida and Texas are collecting patients’ immigration status. As states offer differing guidelines for interacting with ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune18d
'A Century of Caring': Sarasota Memorial Hospital starts celebration of 100th anniversary
The network includes full-service hospitals in Sarasota and Venice with 1,109 beds, free-standing emergency rooms in North Port ... to add their own historical photos to the hospital’s online ...
The Providence Journal6d
A return to old-school medicine: How Kent Hospital at Home brings health care to patients
an emergency room doctor and the medical director of Kent Hospital at Home. Lee and his team vet patients who may benefit from care at home. The doctors can treat heart failure, pneumonia and ...