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 ...

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One third of severely injured trauma patients in the United States are first treated at hospitals designated as Level III or non-trauma centers, and less than half of those patients get transferred ...

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 ...

Kyan Safavi, MD, noted a particular six-month milestone: a 10% increase in transfer completion rate to academic medical centers (7,622 transfers) from October to March at the Somerville, Mass.-based ...

Delays in transferring patients with stroke for advanced treatment are linked to worse disability, fewer lifesaving procedures, and more complications, a large US study shows.

More than 1,700 patients got transferred away from overwhelmed hospitals in New York during a health care capacity crunch last year, including some ill New Yorkers transported hundreds of miles from ...

Nursing can be a physically taxing job – particularly when it comes to patient transfers – and it's over-represented in workplace injury statistics. With the nursing workforce getting older, and more ...