A Pennsylvania Department of Health report says that staff in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono's cardiovascular telemetry unit took 14 minutes to respond to an alarm that sounded because one patient ...

The people who monitor hospital patients’ vital signs are often not nurses but “telemetry” technicians. Critics say HCA's staffing of telemetry units shows how it puts profits ahead of patients.

A telemetry monitor is a portable device that monitors a patient’s heart rhythm, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation. It automatically transmits this information to a central monitor.

As soon as Michigan Medicine remote telemetry was rolled out in scale, Duncan and other nurses in her unit began experiencing issues with the technicians. “Sometimes I found myself having to educate ...

In 2013, the company began replacing its fleet with Kenworth T370s in single and tandem-axle configurations. There are 30 currently in service with more on order. The tandems are spec’d with ...

This new unit will be constructed on the third floor of the main hospital wing. The new ATU will grow from its current size of 10,000 square feet to 27,000 square feet.