If you find yourself in the emergency department and the doctor says he wants to keep you at the hospital for "observation," take heed. Depending on the hospital, observation can mean very different ...

Boston, MA – Previous research has shown that observation units in a hospital can be an efficient way to care for certain patients, but only about one-third of hospitals in the United States have such ...

Improving practices surrounding outpatient observation by creating dedicated observation units with defined protocols could improve bed capacity and quality of care, according to an article in Health ...

In 2010, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center faced a growing number of one day stays on its inpatient unit. The hospital asked Amina Martel, MD, CEP America’s Director of Hospitalist Medicine, to come ...

Aiken Regional Medical Centers has opened a specialized observation unit for patients who visit the emergency department, called the clinical decision unit, and require further management to determine ...

From left, Jim Traylor, emergency department nursing manager, and Dr. Chris Ross, emergency department physician, pose in one of the new clinical decision unit rooms at Community Hospital South. The ...

Emergence Health Network is rolling out plans for a new Behavioral Health East Campus in East El Paso that local officials ...

For children with behavioral conditions, psychiatric co-management in the observation unit of a pediatric emergency department was associated with shorter stays and fewer inpatient admissions, an ...

The Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center is set to receive $5 million in County Executive Calvin Ball’s proposed budget as it works to raise remaining funds for a new observation unit in the ...

Cook County Health has opened an 11-bed observation unit at Provident Hospital to provide more appropriate care for patients who arrive at the South Side hospital's emergency department. Patients who ...

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a smoking cessation service in a group of patients admitted to a short-stay unit in the emergency department. Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a ...