Association of Health Care Journalists
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Emergency department boarding is a horror story that’s largely hidden from public view. Very sick patients are held for hours or even days in the emergency department, often on a gurney in a hallway, waiting for an inpatient bed or transfer to another facility. Boarding reflects health care system failures.
NC Health News
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Office of Emergency Medical Services deployed nine multidisciplinary teams of clinicians to waterlogged communities where residents were cut off from providers. Some of the visiting clinicians stayed for nearly two months, leaving only after the situation had improved enough for local emergency agencies to resume regular operations.
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NC Health News
DECEMBER 9, 2024
During the procedure, the doctor accidentally tore her bladder, and she didnt get out of the hospital until early November. She got out of the hospital Nov. I don’t understand why Duke and United Healthcare waited so long to decide what they were going to do, she said. I didnt know what to do, she said.
Gideon
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
People hurt in disasters are, in general, at a much higher risk of getting infected. Spores of the bacterium, Clostridium tetani , enter our bodies and spread all over the nerves in the central nervous system. The incubation period varies based on how far the injury site is from the central nervous system.
NC Health News
APRIL 29, 2025
But ahead of future disasters, more help may be on the way. The mobile health care company will use the funding to design and build mobile medical suites self-contained clinical units tailored for rural health systems. Nationally, more than 60 million Americans live in rural areas where access to rural hospitals is shrinking.
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