You are an important part of your health care team. You can help make your time in the hospital as safe as possible. Try to take part in every decision about your care. Ask a family member or friend ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the Oregon State Hospital must limit the amount of time it can hold patients charged with crimes, in a bid to create space at the overcrowded ...

Hospital stays, I have found, are challenging and isolating experiences for patients, especially family members with chronic conditions. While medical staff do their best to provide excellent care, a ...

Q: Why do the elderly lose ground mentally when they go to the hospital? Our grandmother had emergency gall bladder surgery, and afterward she got so confused that she thought our grandfather, who ...

Hospitals increased their Medicare billing for the most severe inpatient stays, sparking concerns from a federal watchdog that facilities could be improperly charging the federal government. The ...

It works best for those who need short-term hospitalization with relatively stable diagnoses If you're sick and need hospital-level care, you can get that care at home. It might sound outlandish, but ...

After days of feeling ignored and taken advantage of, he asked his mom to fly home A man turned to the Reddit community for advice following a painful clash with his family during a vulnerable moment.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most stays for pneumonia were significantly longer than the time it took to reach clinical stability. Children ...

Most of our patients don't spend the night in the hospital following their joint replacement surgery. During your stay, your care team will do everything possible to ensure you are comfortable and ...

Ken Mishark is a hospitalist at the Mayo Clinic who formerly served as a physician in the military. Early in his career, he interviewed for a job in the CIA. That experience might explain why he paid ...

If you’re going to the hospital to be treated for COVID-19 in Indiana, be ready for a two-week stay. The average length of stay is 14.3 days, but that varies widely, depending on age, symptoms and ...

Before COVID-19, my daughter's diagnosis earned her frequent-flyer status on the pediatric floors of our hospital. Last year, she had to have a gastrostomy tube (often called a g-tube) inserted, which ...