Marshall Health Network-Rivers Health Emergency Department has earned the Always Ready for Kids certification. This statewide ...

“Knowing where to go to be treated for an injury or illness could help maximize emergency departments for true emergencies and get patients to other resources who can help them more quickly with minor ...

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 ...

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

Then, in a letter to health care providers last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. emphasized that under EMTALA, stabilizing care should be given to a person who is ...

Prescription painkillers -- like opiates and opioids-- can relieve intense physical pain when used properly. But if you become addicted or take too much of an opiate or opioid, you may need emergency ...

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 ...