Missouri hospitals are taking healthcare’s transparency movement a step further: They will stop using “code black” and other emergency codes and instead use plainer language, such as “bomb threat,” ...

The Washington State Hospital Association hopes patients and visitors notice something when they hear an emergency call over the facility’s loudspeaker: they can understand it. The reason it would be ...

Wake County students, parents and teachers will soon have new words to describe threats and emergencies on school campuses. Terms like "Code Red" and "Code Yellow" will be replaced by words like "hold ...