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 ...

It is hard to think that anything went right at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) on the morning of January 20, when Stephen Pasceri murdered cardiac surgeon Michael Davidson and then turned the gun ...

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 ...

Ohio hospitals are trying to pull together on color-coded wristbands for patients, after a report said a confusing palette of colors and medical designations heightens the risk of errors. The color ...

> 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 ...

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Hartford Hospital is adopting a new color-coded uniform system that aims allow patients to more easily identify doctors and other hospital personnel. Under the new system, for example, nurses will ...

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 ...

Pork may be referred to as "the other white meat," but in Greenwich Hospital's Nutmeg Grill, it's considered red. And while spinach pie is filled with green, the entree is associated with yellow. It's ...

It is hard to think that anything went right at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) on the morning of January 20, when Stephen Pasceri murdered cardiac surgeon Michael Davidson and then turned the gun ...