Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which required emergency rooms to provide emergency health care to anyone, regardless of immigration ...

The emergency department is often called a hospital’s front door. For many people desperate for reproductive care, it is being seen as their last chance. But these days, getting treatment for ...

For nearly 40 years, EMTALA has protected access to emergency services regardless of a person’s ability to pay, citizenship, or legal status. By requiring hospitals to screen, stabilize, treat, or ...

Emergency department use has nearly recovered to prepandemic levels, but rising acuity, insufficient capacity and a laundry list of financial roadblocks are straining their viability and threatening ...

Rivers Health Emergency Department has earned the Always Ready for Kids certification. This statewide designation recognizes ...

The case, which could reverberate beyond Idaho to over a dozen other states with abortion bans, is the second time in less than a month that the justices have heard an abortion case. Pam Belluck Idaho ...

Urgent care clinics are equipped to handle non-life-threatening illnesses, injuries and conditions. Here's how much urgent ...

HCA Florida Healthcare has two new freestanding Jacksonville-area emergency rooms, operating as extensions of its Orange Park ...

Under the law Reagan signed, ERs that take Medicare payments — which is most of them — must provide emergency care to anyone, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. Some social media ...