Hospitals use color codes to communicate emergencies quickly and discreetly. Each color code represents a different type of ...

Plain language announcements may improve hospital staff responses to nonclinical emergencies compared to traditional coded messages, according to a new nurse-led study from Cleveland Clinic. The ...

A Penn Medicine hospital was cited for safety violations for the second time in a month — of which one incident resulted in the death of a patient. Hospital nurses' inability to call a “code blue” — a ...