Up to one-third of patients with critical injuries are first taken to the closest non-trauma-specialized hospital before being transferred to a higher-level trauma center. But these transfers can take ...

Prolonged mechanical ventilation is a patient safety issue. According to one epidemiological study, approximately 310 people per 100,000 adults in the United States require invasive mechanical ...

Mission Hospital nurses wrote to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services beginning more than a year ago saying that staffing issues and communication procedures for transferring ...

When patients need a medical procedure that their hospital does not offer, but are not in an emergency state, “there's not a whole lot of guidelines to direct hospitals in terms of how to manage those ...

PTR Robots is a Danish service robot company introducing a robot that can both mobilize and transfer patients—while simultaneously boosting the working environment. The invention has been developed in ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's health minister said Saturday he hopes that the sight of air force planes transferring patients across the country will act as a “wake-up call” to millions who are still ...

William Newton Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital in Kansas that serves patients in Winfield, Cowley County and neighboring regions. The nonprofit community general hospital is locally ...

Santa Barbara County Public Health Director Mouhanad Hammami, seen addressing the Board of Supervisors in early October, informed the board on Tuesday that his department has halted its plans of ...

As a writer for McKnight’s, I find nothing more gratifying than when I receive questions from readers seeking more clarification and guidance after a blog. We came to you at the beginning of November ...

When the pain kicked in again in February, Lahisha Marquez-Soto held off on going to the hospital for days, until she was struggling to walk out of her college dorm in Carson. Eight days into her stay ...

ODENSE, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PTR Robots, a Danish service-robot company, announced the world premiere of its robot that can mobilize and transfer patients. Jointly developed with healthcare ...