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 ...

Griffin Hospital celebrated the grand opening of the new Hewitt Observation Unit with a donor celebration and ribbon-cutting on January 5. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED Griffin Hospital in Derby recently opened a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Baptist Health Louisville is getting ready to help more sick patients. The hospital is opening a new 32-bed observation unit on Tuesday, Sept. 7. The unit is for patients who ...

There's a growing recognition by clinicians that some patients who arrive at the emergency department can benefit if they’re kept under observation for up to a day so that staff can run more tests and ...

Stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging use on acute chest pain patients in the emergency department’s observation unit helps to reduce adverse outcomes, according to a study in JACC: Cardiocascular ...

Overcrowded emergency rooms often lead to overcrowded in-patient rooms. That leads to higher costs for both the hospital and patients. Duke University Hospital has a solution for both issues. A few ...

Emergency department observation units (EDOUs) have been shown to decrease length of stay and improve cost effectiveness. Yet, compared with noncancer patients, patients with cancer are placed in ...

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 ...

Emergency department-based observation of symptomatic young adults for acute coronary syndrome found very few patients with adverse cardiac events, bringing the value of the practice into question, ...

For select patients hospitalized due to COVID-19, an academic urban hospital implemented an observation pathway that incorporated mobile health technology, reducing hospital length of stay by more ...