Medical professionals at urgent care centers and hospital emergency rooms give people immediate medical attention. Understanding the services each offers may save people time and money if they are ...

Hospital emergency rooms (or departments) deal with sudden illnesses and injuries. They maintain preparedness for every kind of health emergency, including vehicular accidents, heart attacks, strokes, ...

Sometimes it’s pretty obvious that it’s time to head to the emergency room, but others…you might not be so sure. You may start to second-guess yourself: Is it really that serious? Especially for women ...

This is part of our hour on emergency room overcrowding and its impact on patient care, which you can listen to here. Emergency departments undoubtedly exist for emergencies. But as health care has ...

The relationship between the emergency room and schizophrenia (or those with serious mental illness) is complicated and often results in undesirable outcomes. Only patients under full throttle ...

ALBANY — Emergency room visits to Albany Medical Center Hospital are among the longest in the nation and those times have grown significantly in recent years, according to a Times Union analysis of ...