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 ...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has released an advisory urging healthcare facilities across the state to standardize the emergency codes they use to notify staff of urgent situations.

Many campus organizations still use code words and phrases to alert staff to implement emergency protocols such as lockdown, reverse evacuation, severe weather sheltering and other life and death ...

HOUSTON – In a world where personal safety is paramount, knowing how to discreetly alert someone that you’re in danger can be life-saving. While there are many ways to call for help, having a set of ...

It is hard to think that anything went right at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) on the morning of January 20, when Stephen Pasceri murdered cardiac surgeon Michael Davidson and then turned the gun ...

This may be your introduction to a new technology. I just read about Quick Response (QR) codes this morning. The concept is a quick way to get just about any information into the hands of a potential ...

SERVANT HEARTS: From left, Amanda Kollar, Lee Thomas and Melanie Robertson of Trinity United Methodist Church volunteered for six days at an emergency Code Purple shelter. Photo by Jessica Wakeman For ...