When I started down my professional path as an emergency physician, I had visions of flashing ambulance light bars, of helicopters landing to scoop up the dying, of intubations and chest tubes and ...

INDIANAPOLIS – It is common for individuals seeking medical care for symptoms of concern to go to the nearest hospital. Physicians there may determine the facility cannot provide the care they believe ...

THE DALLES, Ore. — A rural Oregon hospital is facing a problem that could lead to big repercussions: Adventist Health Columbia Gorge recently learned it will have to find a different way to transfer ...

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 ...

More patients are being transferred out of Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s emergency room as the hospital closes down services, Politico reported March 13. Nine healthcare workers told Politico that the New ...

Delays in transfers can put people at higher risk of complications and derail day-to-day life for patients. Hospital officials from around the state say that transferring patients has generally gotten ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospitals have been instructed by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to stop transferring patients with measles symptoms on account of a shortage of beds.

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) recently published a document for public comments entitled, “Protecting Patients’ Privacy When Transferring Medical ...