Syracuse, NY – The baby boy came into Upstate University Hospital’s emergency room screaming and struggling to breathe. “A very sick baby coming in,” the intercom crackled. He needed to get to the ...

Mr. Litvak, a former Soviet mathematician and systems engineer, is CEO and co-founder of the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Optimization. He is regarded by some hospital executives as a genius ...

Montefiore Health System is planning to break down dozens of hospital beds to make space for critical care capacity, sparking backlash from nurses who say the changes could exacerbate overcrowding in ...

A major academic medical center achieved the effect of adding 63 beds, giving more patients access to advanced care, by creating a data-driven command center for bed use and procedures to find ways to ...

A nearly $100 million project to expand Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg’s emergency department is under way. Officials for Lehigh Valley Health Network, part of Jefferson Health, held a ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Less than a year after Suburban Community Hospital in East Norriton became a smaller ...

Look inside the first emergency room in Manor, where residents have had to travel to Austin, Round Rock or Pflugerville for ...

Getting to see emergency room staff at Prime Healthcare St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin is no longer a time-guessing game when it comes to non-life-threatening issues. Thanks to FastTrackCare, an ...

Northumberland Hills Hospital in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada has launched an emergency department wait time dashboard and ...