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

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Hospital Association urges a statewide color code for wristbands alerting staff to a patient’s wishes and risks. Health care facilities routinely use such bands, but colors ...

Hospitals already use color coding, ranging from disaster situations for high-acuity patients to everyday use for patients with food allergies. In the United Kingdom, however, one hospital is taking ...

CLEVELAND-Patients at the Cleveland Clinic starting on Monday won't see red. Instead, they'll see white, black, royal blue, hunter green, and purple. The hospital has color-coded its staffers so that ...

> Erlanger Health System employees now are color-coded by department and job under a new professional dress code that promotes staff morale and patient safety, reported the Chattanooga Times Free ...

Missouri hospitals are taking healthcare’s transparency movement a step further: They will stop using “code black” and other emergency codes and instead use plainer language, such as “bomb threat,” ...