Mental health department set to begin transferring patients to new Oklahoma City hospital location

Officials on Friday said they’re planning to begin accepting patients next week at a new mental health hospital in southwest ...
abc13

Saturated Houston hospitals transferring COVID-19 patients to other cities

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Harris Health Systems, the public health agency that operates Ben Taub and LBJ hospitals, is sending COVID-19 patients to facilities outside of the area in an effort to cope ...
Healio

Odds for interhospital transfer reduced in critically ill patients without insurance

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 ...
KGW8

Fire and rescue in The Dalles no longer transporting patients to bigger hospitals

THE DALLES, Ore. — A rural Oregon hospital is facing a problem that could lead to big repercussions: Adventist Health Columbia Gorge recently learned it will have to find a different way to transfer ...
KGOU

Oklahoma mental health department to begin moving patients from Griffin Memorial

The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health is moving patients from an aging facility in Norman to a newly renovated behavioral ...
Morning Call PA

NYC hospitals prep for nurses’ strike, transferring patients, sending ambulances to other facilities

Negotiations to keep 10,000 New York City nurses from walking off the job headed into a final weekend as some major hospitals were already preparing Friday for a potential strike by sending ambulances ...
Becker's Hospital Review

A patient transfer best practice hospitals need

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 ...