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

All government hospitals are on Code White Alert for the most common reasons for visiting the emergency room during the ...

This article, originally posted on Sept. 23, 2019, was last updated on Dec. 3, 2025. Please note that these statistics aren’t updated regularly. Always check with your state’s hospital associations ...

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,” ...

Many hospitals call it “code blue,” a signal given over the intercom when a patient’s heart has stopped. When code blue works well, a team speeds to the bedside and revives the patient. The graveyard ...

SOUTH BRONX, New York City (WABC) -- Friday's rampage in the Bronx is raising serious questions about hospital security, including whether more stringent rules should be implemented. Hospitals like ...

The Food and Drug Administration, after a year of deliberation (see story), issued a final ruling yesterday that requires pharmaceutical companies to apply bar codes to thousands of prescription and ...

The Food and Drug Administration is phasing in rules that will require bar codes on hospital medication packets to guard against errors that cause an estimated 7,000 deaths annually. Inside hospital ...