The Washington State Hospital Association hopes patients and visitors notice something when they hear an emergency call over the facility’s loudspeaker: they can understand it. The reason it would be ...

Many hospital employees are unable to identify the meaning of emergency codes, which could hinder an urgent response to incidents, according to a study published in the International Journal of ...

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 ...

Hospital emergency codes are used to swiftly alert staff to something requiring a quick response, but a recent study suggests many healthcare workers can't accurately identify them. To learn more, ...

Rifle City Council last week passed an emergency code change aligning theft penalties with Colorado standards. The state of Colorado has specific penalties for thefts, a tier system for different ...

A Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing after coming within minutes of running out of fuel in flight.