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.

Officials gathered Wednesday for a groundbreaking on the construction of a 5,000-square-foot expansion to the Cedar City Hospital emergency room. It is the first project for the hospital since 2006.

Some patients who have to spend a night in the emergency room before being admitted to the hospital may face a higher risk of dying there, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In January 2024, the 66-year-old was admitted to the emergency room at Saint-Jérôme Hospital due to a respiratory virus. During that time, his wife Sylvie Brosseau says she requested that ...