TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Patients are dying waiting for transfers from small hospitals to larger ones that might have had a better chance to save their lives. Small, rural hospitals say short staff and ...

In the study, published July 5 in Health Affairs, more than half of the regions studied experienced a load imbalance. “The research highlights the need for better coordination of patient transfers, ...

PTR Robots is a Danish service robot company introducing a robot that can both mobilize and transfer patients—while simultaneously boosting the working environment. The invention has been developed in ...

A city-operated vehicle that has been used for non-urgent patient transfers is losing its funding and the people who staffed ...

The median interhospital transfer time for stroke patients needing targeted therapy is 174 minutes, which is longer than the recommended 120 minutes, results of a new US registry-based study show. The ...

In the middle of May, when some 40 Chicagoans a day were dying of COVID-19, Norwegian American Hospital's 12-bed intensive care unit for the sickest patients was full. Some patients lingered in the ...

When I started down my professional path as an emergency physician, I had visions of flashing ambulance light bars, of helicopters landing to scoop up the dying, of intubations and chest tubes and ...