Hospitals showed resilience over the first four months of the year, even as cost pressures persisted. Hospitals are continuing to build on early-year momentum, reflecting encouraging trends in ...

HONOLULU (July 8, 2014) -- Tripler Army Medical Center here has completed the installation of 41 patient lift systems into private and semi-private patient rooms to enhance staff and patient safety, ...

In a hospital work-day, nurses typically each lift a total of 1.8 tons, equivalent to a small car. This heavy lifting to move patients can cause injuries to the nurses, clinical staff and patients. We ...

Carroll Hospital has lifted its Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems “Overall Rating of the Hospital” score from 61.0 up to 76.5 in just four months. Other hospitals ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . From the start of rehabilitation, it took a median of 1 day for patients given a mobile patient lift to stand vs ...

The medical center is saving money. Employees are avoiding injury. Future nurses are getting early exposure to hospital work. And patients are appreciative. It is all the result of the newly ...

Moving intensive care patients has long been a major burden for hospital staff. The task requires them to put patient safety first while simultaneously protecting themselves from the various injuries ...

What do you get when you combine a national obesity crisis with an aging workforce? Injured nurses, says the nursing union that forced a South Jersey hospital to provide more training and equipment to ...