Hospitals use color codes to communicate emergencies quickly and discreetly. Each color code represents a different type of ...

The Washington State Hospital Association hopes patients and visitors notice something when they hear an emergency call over the facility’s loudspeaker: they can understand it. The reason it would be ...

Many hospital employees are unable to identify the meaning of emergency codes, which could hinder an urgent response to incidents, according to a study published in the International Journal of ...

Hospital emergency codes are used to swiftly alert staff to something requiring a quick response, but a recent study suggests many healthcare workers can't accurately identify them. To learn more, ...

I first started working in healthcare security at St. Joseph’s Healthcare System in the west end of Toronto in 1985. I had only been working in the security industry since 1978 and I was still very ...

Sixty seconds can make or break the outcome of a hospital "code blue" or cardiac arrest response. New research found a hospital code response team rushing to a patient in cardiac arrest may arrive at ...

CHICAGO – It's the most valuable data on the dark web, and with 76% of healthcare organizations paying the ransoms, "we're funding the attacks ourselves," said Nate Lesser, Children's National ...

THOMASVILLE — On Wednesday, July 23, Archbold Memorial will hold an active shooter drill, during which hospital staff will simulate a response to an overhead announcement of “Code Silver.” Code Silver ...