The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has released an advisory urging healthcare facilities across the state to standardize the emergency codes they use to notify staff of urgent situations.

Anyone who has ever seen a medical show knows what a “code blue” is. For those not in the know, it’s a medical facility’s emergency code that a patient needs to be resuscitated. That isn’t the only ...

The Northeast Indiana Patient Safety Coalition is simplifying its emergency alert system codes, according to Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly. 1. Northeast Indiana hospitals have used a color-code ...