In today’s high-tech medical world, electric and smart hospital beds often take the spotlight. Yet, many healthcare ...

In today’s healthcare environment, patient comfort has become just as important as treatment quality. Hospitals and care facilities around the world are recognizing that a patient’s physical comfort ...

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 ...

Waiting in the ER after being admitted to the hospital— also called "boarding"—is an escalating problem. Patients often board in ER hallways for hours, which also increases the chance medical errors ...

A major academic medical center achieved the effect of adding 63 beds, giving more patients access to advanced care, by ...

CENTER FIVE, STILL ACTIVE SCENE. OKAY, MARY, THANK YOU FOR THAT. NOW TO A STORY YOU SAW FIRST HERE ON FIVE MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL IS SOUNDING THE ALARM ON WHAT IT’S CALLING A CAPACITY CRISIS. AND ...

Representatives from four hospital systems that want to expand in Buncombe County made their case to residents Tuesday in a ...

Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced Friday that it has been dealing with an ongoing “capacity disaster” and that it’s in desperate need of more beds to help combat the “unprecedented ...

The number of state psychiatric hospital beds has hit a historic low with about 11 beds per 100,000 population, a new report showed. More than half of those beds (52%) were occupied by forensic ...