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 ...

Missouri hospitals are taking healthcare’s transparency movement a step further: They will stop using “code black” and other emergency codes and instead use plainer language, such as “bomb threat,” ...

I was sitting at Carolinas Medical Center last month when an ominous-sounding voice came over the loud speaker: “Security alert. Threat of violence. Levine Children’s Hospital. 10th floor. Avoid the ...

The Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) has directed all public sector hospitals across the province to implement an international-standard emergency code system to improve patient safety and emergency ...