Emergency Departments (EDs)
The American Hospital Association voices support of the Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department (ABC-ED) Act of 2025 (S. 1974).
A new AHA Market Scan Trailblazers report, sponsored by ImageTrend, explores how hospitals and health systems can improve operations using data from regional emergency medical services (EMS).
Closing the Loop on ED Discharges: A Playbook for Follow-Up Care and Network Navigation Thursday, December 3, 2026 1 - 2 p.m. Eastern; noon - 1 p.m. Central; 10 - 11 a.m. Pacific Join us for a fireside chat with Peter Van Epps, vice president of strategy at Ascension…
Adopting an innovative care delivery approach — identifying patients who can receive treatment while sitting rather than lying down — can reduce length of stay and increase ED efficiency without any adverse impact on outcomes or care quality.
Ambulatory care is expected to become the “new center of gravity” for health systems over the next decade, with outpatient volumes projected to grow 20% by 2036, according to the 2026 Impact of Change forecast from Vizient.
Emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts from 2021-2025 were highest among adolescents age 12-17 at 24.8%, according to a report released June 25 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has launched a public dashboard offering near-real-time insights into heat-related emergency room visits.
Despite constrained resources, West Feliciana Hospital has shown how rural health systems can transform cardiac care and patient outcomes by updating emergency response processes by leveraging community involvement and implementing evidence-based standards.
In the early 2000s, Bartlett Regional Hospital launched its Multi-Visit Program (MVP) to support the case management of vulnerable patients who were visiting the emergency department up to 20 times per month.
This webinar will focus on the growing challenge of patient access and cost inefficiencies across emergency departments, freestanding ERs and urgent care centers as capacity expands, but effective triage remains inconsistent.