It is hard to think that anything went right at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) on the morning of January 20, when Stephen Pasceri murdered cardiac surgeon Michael Davidson and then turned the gun ...

As Piedmont Healthcare has grown from five to 11 hospitals over the past four years, entities that have joined the system have brought with them their own color-coded systems. As a result, a code at ...

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 ...

Blue, gold and amber are more than pleasing colors, they deliver important messages. The hues are part of an alert system issued by Delaware law enforcement to notify the public of an ongoing incident ...

Patients and visitors at any of Piedmont Healthcare’s hospitals will now hear plain language emergency announcements, a best practice recommended by 25 state hospital associations and several leading ...

Many campus organizations still use code words and phrases to alert staff to implement emergency protocols such as lockdown, reverse evacuation, severe weather sheltering and other life and death ...

Color codes are part of hospital culture. Spend enough time at a health care facility and you're bound to hear a Code Blue or Code Pink or Code Amber. These seemingly benign announcements help staff ...