Waiting in the ER after being admitted to the hospital— also called "boarding"—is an escalating problem. Patients often board in ER hallways for hours, which also increases the chance medical errors ...

The dire shortage of pediatric hospital beds plaguing the nation this fall is a byproduct of financial decisions made by hospitals over the past decade, as they shuttered children's wards, which often ...

On one level, experts see the arrival of 372 beds at three new or expanding hospitals in Irvine as a welcome addition to Orange County’s effective but strained health care system. Simply put, more ...

A 9-year-old boy lived for weeks in a hospital emergency room, dressed in paper scrubs, because his parents couldn't handle him and the state's social services agency had nowhere to place him. A ...