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Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
In the United States, response codes are used to describe a mode of response for an emergency unit responding to a call. They generally vary but often have three basic tiers: Code 3: Respond to the call using lights and sirens. Code 2: Respond to the call with emergency lights, but without sirens. Alternatively, sirens may be used if necessary ...
Outlying islands. Lists of hospitals in outlying islands of the United States include: Baker Island, none currently, uninhabited. Howland Island, none currently, uninhabited. Jarvis Island, none currently, uninhabited. Johnston Atoll, none currently, underground hospital during World War II (1939–1941) Kingman Reef, none currently, uninhabited.
Hospitals in New Hampshire. Concord Hospital is a non-profit hospital located in the West End of Concord, New Hampshire. It is the principal site of the Concord Hospital regional health system which serves central New Hampshire, and is a teaching hospital affiliated with Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, New Hampshire's only medical school. [1]
United States, No. 23-726, 603 U.S. ___ (2024) The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act ( EMTALA) [1] is an act of the United States Congress, passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospital emergency departments that accept payments from Medicare to provide an appropriate ...
On October 1, 2008, Hackensack University Medical Center North at Pascack Valley opened as "a satellite emergency department to treat non-life-threatening emergencies" out of the old facility. The satellite hospital aimed to serve the local community for immediate healthcare needs and serviced the area until June 1, 2013.
As of December 2020, there were six Level 3 hospitals in Zambia. [1] University Teaching Hospital (1,655 beds), Lusaka. Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital (826 beds), Lusaka. Ndola Central Hospital (800 beds), Ndola. Kitwe Central Hospital (630 beds), Kitwe. Cancer Diseases Hospital (252 beds), Lusaka [2] [3]
Hospitals in Iowa. MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center (formerly Mercy Hospital) is a non-profit [1] medical facility located in Dubuque, Iowa. It is one of two hospitals located in the city – the other being Finley Hospital. The hospital is based primarily in Dubuque, with a critical access hospital in Dyersville, Iowa.