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 ...
Nature

The impact of atypical intrahospital transfers on patient outcomes: a mixed methods study

The architectural design of hospitals worldwide is centred around individual departments, which require the movement of patients between wards. However, patients do not always take the simplest route ...
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, ...
Medical Xpress

Less than half of critical patients transfer to level I trauma centers

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 ...
Business Wire

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

PTR Robots is a Danish service robot company introducing a robot that can both mobilize and transfer patients—while simultaneously boosting the working environment. The invention has been developed in ...
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 ...
Yahoo

‘We’re paralyzed’: Wisconsin hospitals struggle to transfer and place new patients

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 34 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Robert Mead, a family physician at Bellin Health, never had to turn away an ambulance or ...
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 ...
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 ...