Emergency Medical System news and information

You never know who you might see jumping out of an ambulance to provide emergency care. It could be a rock star, a former teen heartthrob or even a hospital executive.
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Modern Healthcare presents its annual look at key industry trends affecting the healthcare workforce.
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Three people are dead after a plane transporting a medical patient crashed in the backyard of a suburban Chicago home.
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Visits to hospital emergency departments increased to an all-time high of 136 million in 2009, according to estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This represents almost a 10% increase from the 2008 figure of 123.8 million.
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Rural communities are at the center of an effort to broaden the role of emergency medical personnel in healthcare by giving specially trained paramedics the ability to work as primary caregivers in selected situations and settings.
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Dr. Sandra Schneider, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, explains the motives behind the group's new "Just 2%" public relations campaign with Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda. Schneider also comments on the impact of healthcare reform on emergency-room use and on...
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The nation's hospital groups have sent letters to the CMS urging the agency to maintain its current policy on applying the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, to hospital inpatients.
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