Columbus Fire and EMS (CFEMS) will now offer an option for non-emergency callers to connect virtually with doctors to receive instant access to care, circumventing long emergency room wait times or ...

When you’re dealing with an immediate and serious health concern, your top priority is getting the most effective care as quickly as possible. But what’s the best place to find that care? Outside of ...

Look inside the first emergency room in Manor, where residents have had to travel to Austin, Round Rock or Pflugerville for ...

The last thing you want to do in an emergency is wait. Here are some tips on how to get seen sooner in the emergency room. Mark Winfrey/Shutterstock The median wait time in an American emergency room ...

Imagine racing into your local emergency room and you wait not minutes, but hours to be seen, then E.R. doctors admit you to the hospital, but there are no beds at all. ER overcrowding has been a ...

You have two options if you need after-hours medical attention: urgent care clinics or the ER. The ER is the best place to get specialized treatment for life-threatening illnesses and injuries. Urgent ...

Dr. Sara McLin thought she made the right choice by going to an in-network emergency room near her Florida home after her 4-year-old burned his hand on a stove last Memorial Day weekend. Her family is ...

Kathleen Logan helped a friend with terminal cancer get to a local hospital on Jan. 1. It was a painful experience made worse, she said, by the overcrowded emergency room they encountered. Logan, a ...