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A senior health official says emergency department visits for less serious injuries and illnesses are down 9.2 per cent as a result of measures put in place to find people alternatives to seeking hospital care.

Horizon Health Network has set a target to reduce emergency department wait times for urgent patients to 120 minutes, which is four times the national guideline, a coroner's inquest heard this week.

Amid the controlled chaos at Toronto Westerns emergency department, the Star observed staff dealing with crowding and threats, while making lifesaving decisions.

After hospitals warned patients to consider alternatives to the ER if they had "non-emergent" problems, the Star complied data from 19 emergency departments.

Doha, Qatar:Acting Head of the Emergency Department at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Dr. Aftab Mohammad Omar stated that the efforts made to improve...

A report shows the Thunder Bay district’s paramedic service is feeling the squeeze of rising call volumes.

Background: Previous studies have shown reductions in the volume of emergency department visits early in the COVID-19 pandemic, but few have evaluated the pandemic’s impact over time or stratified analyses by reason for visits. We aimed to quantify such changes in British Columbia, Canada, cumulatively and during prominent nadirs, and by reason for visit, age and acuity. Methods: We included data from the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System for 30 emergency departments across BC from Jan...

Along with bases in Feversham and Durham over the next couple of years, another four bases being recommended by staff include Ayton in 2026, Thornbury in 2027, Cobble Beach in 2028 and Holstein in 2029.

Akeem Scott's family is appealing a decision not to discipline the nurses who triaged him in the emergency room before he died. Scott was left unattended for hours at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital and died just hours after he left.

The family of a man who died after an hours-long wait in the ER at a Montreal hospital is calling for a review of a decision that cleared the nurses who saw him of any wrongdoing.