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The Riverside Medical Center Emergency Department in Kankakee, Ill., is seen on Jan. 29, 2025, where Nancy Fregeau said she took her husband, Michael Reeman, three times in 2024. (Benjamin Thorp/WFYI Public Media via AP)
A look at ER boarding in the US from the AP and Side Effects Public Media
Ben Thorpe, Side Effects Public Media reporter: Tracy Balhan flips through old photos of her dad, Bill Speer, at their vacation home in Indiana. In one photo, her father wears a t-shirt in front of a sweaty bucket of beer bottles.
 
Boni Speer, left, and her daughter, Tracy Balhan, hold a photo of Bill Speer, Tracy’s father, in Aurora, Ill., on Friday, March 14, 2025. (Benjamin Thorp/WFYI Public Media via AP)
As dementia rates increase, experts warn hospital emergency rooms are underprepared
An Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis shows one in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital admission had a wait of four or more hours.
 
Nurse practitioner Eliza Otero, left, talks with Fernando Hermida at Pineapple Healthcare in Orlando, Fla., on May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
LOCALIZE IT: HIV cases are on the rise in young gay Latinos, especially in the Southeast
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS:

African Americans continue to have the highest HIV rates in the U.S. overall, but Latinos made up the largest share of new HIV diagnoses and infections among gay and bisexual men in 2022, per the most recent data available. Latinos are about 19% of the U.S. population but accounted for about 33% of
 
Fernando Hermida, who has moved several times to access HIV treatment, stands for a portrait in Charlotte, N.C., on May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Laura Bargfeld)
Young gay Latinos see a rising share of new HIV cases, leading to a call for targeted funding
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is years into an initiative to end the nation’s HIV epidemic by pumping hundreds of millions of dollars annually into certain states, counties and U.S. territories with the highest infection rates.