Imagine you’re having a heart attack. Your co-workers call 911, and the medics arrive. Under lights and sirens, traffic cleaves as the path clears to the hospital where doctors and nurses are waiting ...

A new health policy brief published in the online version of the journal Health Affairs found that diverting ambulances may provide temporary relief for emergency room and hospital overcrowding. But ...

A medical emergency rarely begins inside a hospital. It often starts in a home, on a roadside, or in a public place where time and uncertainty collide. The journey from the first call for help to ...

(TNS) — It is nearly 6 o'clock when Ambulance No. 46 begins its return to the station. The skies over south Houston, undecided for most of the day, choose now to let loose sheets of rain. Alden Speer ...

Ambulance delays brought on by emergency room backups and high call volumes to EMS are forcing some local residents to wait hours for paramedics to arrive. A surge in calls for help over flu season ...

Data from the Georgia DPH ranked regions on speed of care In Georgia, it takes about an hour for ambulances to get from the scene of an emergency to the actual hospital, on average and where you live ...