Many nursing homes are scrambling to recruit qualified caregivers for elderly patients, partly due to the stigma attached to ...

Bed availability is a "significant" factor in determining whether or not a patient is admitted to a critical care bed after surgery, questioning whether some are getting the care they need, a new ...

A paramedic who spent just nine minutes caring for an elderly man left permanently ... patient's request to simply put back into bed and not taken to hospital, the panel found that, as the ...

The Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Center for the Elderly argues the law ... The problem of not sufficient hospital beds and not sufficient long-term care beds, that's the core problem ...

Sam Itani was named CEO of Shasta Regional Medical Center, a 226-bed facility in Redding, Calif. Mr. Itani began his new role on Sept. 16, taking the helm from Allen Stefanek, who had been serving ...

EXETER — Proposed cuts in health care services at Exeter Hospital would negatively impact seniors, low-income and disadvantaged populations, said New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella in ...

The number of hospital beds 'blocked' by elderly patients well enough to be discharged is 100 times higher than the figure first announced. Last week, the Government said that 6,000 beds were tied ...

A frail, elderly man “cried for help for over an hour” before tragically dying after getting stuck in a gap in his care home ...

A Hong Kong public hospital has identified bedbugs, a tiny brown pest that feed mostly on human blood, on at least 10 beds, with four patients believed to have been bitten while hospitalised.

PROBLEMS have been found after a patient died after falling from her bed at a Herefordshire hospital ... the inquest had raised concerns that bed rails are routinely erected before falls ...

AN elderly woman was airlifted to hospital following a medical incident in Southbourne. A Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance helicopter was seen landing on the Southbourne coast road after a woman ...