Hospitals in Massachusetts and around the country are constantly facing a shortage of beds. To help alleviate the capacity crisis, a program is offering hospital-level care in the comfort of patients’ ...
Every day, across the nation, patients wait hours or days in emergency departments until a bed opens up for them in the hospital. Patients in smaller hospitals wait to get transferred to larger ones ...
In the television drama “The Pitt,” patients in a fictional emergency room in Pittsburgh are sometimes “boarded” in corridors for hours, even days, waiting for a hospital bed. Art, in this case, ...