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 ...

Carilion Clinic has managed its stretched hospital bed capacity with a command center and post-acute referral hub. Carilion Clinic has mastered the intricacies of operating a command center and ...

The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services provides a free, downloadable and interactive (fillable) model form for to facilitate information sharing when individuals move between hospitals ...

New research suggests regions with a higher number of surgeons generally demonstrate lower mortality rates resulting from motor vehicle crashes, according to a Union-Tribune news report. The research ...

When the pain kicked in again in February, Lahisha Marquez-Soto held off on going to the hospital for days, until she was struggling to walk out of her college dorm in Carson. Eight days into her stay ...

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 ...

Tasmania’s nurses union is taking the state government to the industrial umpire, claiming patients are being dumped in ...

Patient safety is the cornerstone of quality healthcare, focusing on the prevention and reduction of adverse events that cause harm during medical care. It ...