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 ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Colorado's Combined Hospital Transfer Center was activated in August, at the first sign of hospital capacity going up. It is currently at the lowest level, but an executive order from ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Patients are dying waiting for transfers from small hospitals to larger ones that might have had a better chance to save their lives. Small, rural hospitals say short staff and ...

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TAMPA, Fla. — An Alabama man recently died after a cardiac event. He was turned away from 43 hospitals because of cardiac ICU bed shortages. So what happens if you get sick, COVID-related or not, and ...

Kyan Safavi, MD, noted a particular six-month milestone: a 10% increase in transfer completion rate to academic medical centers (7,622 transfers) from October to March at the Somerville, Mass.-based ...

More than 1,700 patients got transferred away from overwhelmed hospitals in New York during a health care capacity crunch last year, including some ill New Yorkers transported hundreds of miles from ...

Colorado hospitals and health systems on Wednesday took the extraordinary step of activating the state’s patient transfer system to its highest level — a sign the state's hospitals are at risk of ...

Nursing can be a physically taxing job – particularly when it comes to patient transfers – and it's over-represented in workplace injury statistics. With the nursing workforce getting older, and more ...

Spartanburg Medical Center violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, according to federal officials. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Spartanburg ...