For nearly 20 years, Maria would call her sister — a nurse in Mexico — for advice on how to manage her asthma and control her ...

Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria’s patient safety bill package is now one step closer to reaching the Governor’s desk. The two bills will ...

A car crash was reported Monday morning in Sacramento near the Sac State campus. Emergency medical services were dispatched around 7:39 a.m. to eastbound Highway 50 east of Howe Avenue. Sign up for ...

California's worker safety agency is under-inspecting workplaces after accidents and worker injuries, failing to enforce labor regulations in a way that "may undermine" them because it does not have ...

The Leapfrog Group’s latest report looks at errors, injuries and infection rates at hospitals across the nation.

Deputies with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office is actively searching for a suspect after a woman says she was shot in the arm Saturday night. According to officials, the shooting happened around ...

Multiple people have been transported to a local hospital after a crash involving a Sacramento Regional Transit bus on Sunday afternoon.

Leapfrog hospital patient safety grades for Lexington: UK HealthCare, Baptist Health, St. Joseph. How to use the grades, what they mean & picking best hospital.

While national averages are improving for health care-acquired infections, three local hospitals performed below average in preventing them.

The Leapfrog Group has published a hospital safety report card twice a year since 2012 that examines not which facility has the best doctors or best outcomes. Leapfrog focuses on which hospitals ...

In recent years, Rhode Island has made improvements in hospital safety, jumping from 16th to second place in a hospital safety survey.