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Preventing Hospital Infections Could Free Thousands of Canadian Beds

Canadian infection prevention could relieve overcrowding while protecting patients and healthcare workers Across Canada, patients who have been admitted to hospital are spending ex...

Patient numbers soar for Whanganui Hospital's 15-bed emergency department

On one day in September, the 15-bed department reached 253 percent capacity - equivalent to about 50 patients in the department at one time.

Internal data reveals 726 Quebecers waiting in hospital for long-term care beds - Montreal

Internal data reveals 726 Quebecers waiting in hospital for long-term care beds - Montreal

Wellington Hospital closes off part of corridor for extra beds

Wellington Hospital has placed beds in a corridor outside the ED observation unit for stable patients awaiting admission or discharge.

Canadian ‘virtual sitter’ technology expands as hospitals look to improve patient safety and ease staffing pressures

Canadian hospitals are increasingly turning to remote patient observation technology as they look for new ways to protect patients at risk of falls and other adverse events while m...

Outages force hospital to defer patients visits

Outages force hospital to defer patients visits

Respiratory disease put 97,000 people in hospital in 2025

Children and those over 65 made up 70 percent of all hospital admissions.

Hospital Fentanyl Protocol Shows Promise for High-Risk Opioid Patients

When patients with opioid use disorder arrive at the hospital, the admission itself can be a dangerous turning point. Cut off from the unregulated drug supply their bodies have ada...

Hospital-Acquired Infections: When It’s Malpractice

You go to a hospital to get better, not to get sick. Yet every day, patients across Illinois develop new infections they did not have when they were admitted. Public-health data ha...

Nursing Tip of the Day! - Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing Mechanically ventilated patients are at an increased risk of pulmonary infections. One reason is that the ICU environment, with its heavy antibiotic...

Dannevirke Community Hospital pauses new patient admissions as Health NZ seeks staff - RNZ

Dannevirke Community Hospital pauses new patient admissions as Health NZ seeks staff - RNZ

Indiana hospitals will no longer divert patients for hospital overcrowding

Indiana will become the third state to end hospital diversion for EMS services because of overcrowding. Indiana health officials say the process poses a risk to patients.

Why hospital metrics miss the patient who never returns

On October 15, I walked through a Taipei hospital with an international group of health professionals and an uncomfortable question I could not fit on a presentation slide: If our...

Dannevirke hospital 'not capable of providing a safe and sustainable inpatient service'

An urgent audit has found the hospital does not have sufficient clinicians to be safe for patients.

Exploring Safer Hospital Discharges

New study shows how community warming centres have the potential to reduce hospital burden. People experiencing homelessness often visit emergency departments (EDs) as a source of...

MGM Hospital Patients Struggle For Basic Amenities

Patients and attendants at Warangal’s MGM Hospital have raised concerns over shortages of saline stands, fans and beds amid overcrowding.

Transitional care fails even the best-prepared patients

This is the month after discharge from a health care facility when patients are at high risk for death, injury, or readmission to the hospital. As a physician, I have planned thous...

Some patients face 24-hour wait at Wellington Hospital emergency department

One patient arrived in the evening and was eventually admitted at 6am, after falling asleep and face-planting.

Patient collapses, needs CPR in Waikato Hospital ED waiting room

The patient suffered a medical event about 40 minutes after arriving at the emergency department, with a source saying there were no beds available when she arrived.

Sidewalk sleepers: They have nowhere else to stay while a loved one is in the hospital

Patients travel miles to be treated at public hospitals in Delhi. Those in need get financial aid for their care. But for overnight accommodations, families are often on their own...

Outpatient Growth and Fewer Beds: The New US Hospital Model

Patients pack Ho Chi Minh City's largest hospital from dawn as daily visits top 10,000

Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City sees an average of 8,000-9,000 patient visits a day from early morning, with the figure recently exceeding 10,000 on some days, leaving many ar...

Palliative care often arrives too late for hospitalized non-metastatic cancer patients

Hospitalized cancer patients without distant metastases are waiting longer than their metastatic counterparts for palliative care consultations, according to a large retrospective...

Functional recovery after hospitalization starts early

We know when a patient’s laboratory values have improved. We know when the infection has cleared, the fracture has been repaired, or the heart failure has stabilized. But before de...