CBS News

New Health Order In Colorado Leaves Patient Transfer Decisions To Hospitals

DENVER (CBS4) - Colorado's Combined Hospital Transfer Center was activated in August, at the first sign of hospital capacity going up. It is currently at the lowest level, but an executive order from ...
WTSP

If ICU beds reach capacity, how do patients transfer?

TAMPA, Fla. — An Alabama man recently died after a cardiac event. He was turned away from 43 hospitals because of cardiac ICU bed shortages. So what happens if you get sick, COVID-related or not, and ...
The Intelligencer

Patient-transfer company donates $5K for Trenton hospital equipment

Alliance Patient Transfer has donated more than $5,000 to the Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation for a new vital signs ...
The Business Journals

Mass General Brigham to launch new center to improve patient flow, access

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The Patient Transfer and Access ...
Modern Healthcare

Banner uses automation to cut time for accepting patient transfers

One-hundred ninety-eight minutes. That’s, on average, how long it took Banner Health to accept patient transfers from outside facilities in 2018: more than three hours. A patient’s condition could ...
Business Wire

PTR Robots Introduces World’s First Mobile Lifting Robot That Both Transfers and Rehabilitates Patients

ODENSE, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PTR Robots, a Danish service-robot company, announced the world premiere of its robot that can mobilize and transfer patients. Jointly developed with healthcare ...
Medical Xpress

Race and ethnicity may affect whether and where hospitals transfer patients

Black patients in Florida are transferred to public hospitals more often than white patients, even when comparing patients from the same hospital with similar health conditions and the same insurance, ...
NPR

During The Pandemic, Chicago Hospitals Are On Their Own To Transfer Patients

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 ...
The Herald-Dispatch

Cabell Huntington opens patients transfer center

HUNTINGTON -- Cabell Huntington Hospital has opened a patient transfer center to make it easier for physicians to transfer their patients for care. The Cabell Huntington Hospital Patient Transfer ...
Case Western Reserve University

Using data to decide when to transfer patients by medical helicopter

The increased use of medical helicopters over the last half-century has saved countless lives by quickly getting patients from trauma to the emergency room (ER) within the so-called “golden hour.” But ...
Mountain Xpress

Mission patients endangered by emergency department transfer procedures, nurses say

Mission Hospital nurses wrote to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services beginning more than a year ago saying that staffing issues and communication procedures for transferring ...