Up to one-third of patients with critical injuries are first taken to the closest non-trauma-specialized hospital before being transferred to a higher-level trauma center. But these transfers can take ...

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Patients’ insurance coverage and gender may influence the likelihood of a hospital transferring them to another acute-care facility, according to a study from the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with no insurance, Medicare or Medicaid vs. commercial insurance were significantly less likely to ...

A Hawaii mental health patient died by suicide within weeks of being transferred to South Carolina from Hawaii State Hospital ...

Today marks the culmination of four-and-a-half years of construction for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s new Arthur M. Blank Hospital and support buildings at North Druid Hills and I-85 in ...

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 ...

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 ...