Firefighters spent more than one hour early Sunday morning trying to get the man out of the shaft inside the Medstar Health hospital on Irving Northwest.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) — How could a patient and a paramedic tumble out of the back of a moving ambulance? Authorities are investigating that type of bizarre mishap that occurred Tuesday night ...

The National Center for Patient Safety offers a free, downloadable pocket card designed to help healthcare providers measure the risk of patient falls. Healthcare providers can use the Morse Fall ...

Healthcare facilities around the country are implementing different protocols to limit the number of patient falls, which may result in injury and readmission. 1. Hundreds of thousands of patients ...

Patients taking antihypertensive medication experienced a higher rate of serious fall injuries, especially if they had a previous fall injury, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Using the ...

Overall, there is little variation in interventions used to prevent patient falls, despite different risk levels, according to a new data analysis from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Hospital staff were warned several times that a patient was unsteady before he fell and suffered a catastrophic brain injury, an inquest heard. Gregory Dervin, 35, died a week after hitting his head ...

Patient falls are a serious safety concern in hospitals. Injuries from falls can be devastating to patients and are now subject to reimbursement penalties from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Significantly more patients from the injurious fall group had all but one of the studied prescription classes ...