PITTSBURGH — Allegheny Health Network is rolling out a new electronic monitor across its system that helps staff verify they’ve used strong handwashing and hand-sanitizing skills in and out of a ...

Billions of dollars are invested in the design and construction of health care facilities each year, but few studies have evaluated the impact of hospital room design. Single-site study at the ...

Research has found that a new wireless sock monitoring system reduced fall rates among 'fall-risk' patients hospitalized at Ohio State's Brain and Spine Hospital. Research led by nurses at The Ohio ...

Hand washing by health care workers -- the key to infection control -- is being eyed by cameras at a Long Island hospital where a monitor displays compliance in the latest high-tech step to enforce ...

ALBANY — Emergency room visits to Albany Medical Center Hospital are among the longest in the nation and those times have grown significantly in recent years, according to a Times Union analysis of ...

A 9-year-old boy lived for weeks in a hospital emergency room, dressed in paper scrubs, because his parents couldn't handle him and the state's social services agency had nowhere to place him. A ...

The soundtrack of a hospital is usually predictable: beeping monitors, shuffling footsteps, and the low tone of voices.