Concord, Calif.-based VEP Healthcare, an emergency medicine and hospital staffing firm, began notifying patients of a data breach after email hacks left patients' data exposed for more than a year.

With hospitals juggling staffing problems and an increase in patients, state officials on Friday issued a public health emergency order that they say will provide staff flexibility, ensure sufficie… ...

State mental hospitals are struggling with low staffing, causing hundreds of beds to sit unused and backlogging over 2,100 mentally ill people – a record high – in county jails for months as ...

This all happened around 9:30 p.m., so the family's only option at the moment was Duke Regional Hospital. ... "We're having a harder time staffing emergency departments, ...

Even before the new hospital opened in mid-December, St. Michael had issues with low staffing levels at its Bremerton campus, said one ER nurse, who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for ...

Newsom moves to set emergency staffing rules in psychiatric hospitals following Chronicle investigation. ... The California Hospital Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The complaint highlights deficient staffing and long wait times in the Mission Hospital emergency department, a “manufactured” bed shortage and the consequences of medical transport services ...

The emergency order, issued by the Department of Public Health, governs intensive care unit nurse staffing ratios and permits hospitals to create additional capacity in alternate spaces.