When it comes to hospitals, not all beds are created equally, and that's part of the problem for the UVM Medical Center as it tries daily to find the beds it needs for patients. Dr. Stephen Leffler, ...

The lack of nursing home beds means that U.S. hospitals are caring for patients who don't need to be hospitalized but have nowhere else to go. The nationwide shortage of nursing home staff also means ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Special care home operators say they have empty beds, while hospitals use storage space and an ambulance bay for admitted patients ...

A “chronic” dearth of hospital beds that led to an elderly patient’s surgery getting cancelled four times could be alleviated with the help of nursing homes. That is according to two sources familiar ...

After a patch of ice sent Marc Durocher hurtling to the ground, and doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center repaired the broken hip that resulted, the 75-year-old electrician found himself at a ...

Only 6% of hospital beds were available in the Finger Lakes region recently. Rising illness, staffing shortages and nursing home backlogs have led to growing numbers of upstate NY hospital patients ...