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 ...

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 ...

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.

Anyone who has ever seen a medical show knows what a “code blue” is. For those not in the know, it’s a medical facility’s emergency code that a patient needs to be resuscitated. That isn’t the only ...

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