An elevator repair company demanded that untrained John Peter Smith Hospital employees stop making repairs or resetting elevators themselves a week before a nurse was critically injured in an elevator ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - JPS Hospital is facing a new lawsuit from another person who says she was seriously hurt riding in a hospital elevator a couple of years ago. Patricia Price of Arlington says ...

Brake failure is being blamed for an accident that severely injured a nurse at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth earlier this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Texas ...

The John Peter Smith Hospital elevator that malfunctioned in January, leading to a nurse being seriously injured, will begin being refurbished next month. Carren Stratford was injured on Jan. 20 as ...

The CEO of Fort Worth, Texas-based John Peter Smith Hospital issued a letter Jan. 29 to the facility’s elevator service operator demanding the company address safety concerns roughly one week after a ...

DORCHESTER - Ann Wohlhueter was shocked when, she says for the second time in a month, her mother-in-law was unable to get to her doctor's appointment because of a broken elevator. Wohlhueter's mother ...

The doors slammed shut on Cardell Davis Sr. just as he tried to step off the elevator at John Peter Smith Hospital. Davis, who was at the hospital to pick up medication, pried himself free after about ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – Four staff members at a psychiatric hospital in Huntington are on administrative leave as of Friday. It comes after a patient was hurt in an elevator shaft. The West ...

Crews performed a rope rescue after an elevator at an Ann Arbor hospital became stuck over the weekend. An employee had gotten trapped after the elevator locked into place above the 7th floor. It ...

Nearly all visitors use hospital elevators, making this high-traffic area a breeding ground for potentially dangerous infections. To combat the problem, researchers suggested strategically placing ...

Hospital elevator buttons are commonly colonized by bacteria, and have a higher prevalence of colonization than bathroom surfaces, according to research published in Open Medicine. Researchers swabbed ...

Ok, we've accepted that airplane seats are hotbeds for E.coli. We've sort of accepted that our favorite beach spots are too grimy to swim in. But now it turns out that even hospital elevator buttons ...