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 ...

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 ...

Color codes used to alert hospital staff of emergencies in their facilities are under scrutiny in Texas in light of increased infectious disease and mass casualty situations, The Dallas Morning News ...

CLEVELAND-Patients at the Cleveland Clinic starting on Monday won't see red. Instead, they'll see white, black, royal blue, hunter green, and purple. The hospital has color-coded its staffers so that ...

> 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 ...