He said he would be more concerned if the dirty room was at a VA hospital with a greater history of problems. “If this was the VA in Virginia, I’d be up in arms,” Wilson said.

NYU Langone Health, one of the nation’s top academic medical centers, told emergency-room doctors that they have “sole discretion” to place patients on ventilators and institutional backing ...

These were my thoughts when I heard about a veteran and the dirty exam room at the Salt Lake City veterans hospital. I saw the pictures and thought this is unacceptable. However, having worked for ...

“Patients on ventilators needs a lot of support,” said Brady Scott, a respiratory therapist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. “We have to constantly make sure they are breathing ...

So some ventilators have the ability to take basically the display from the ventilator and just physically move it outside the room. We actually took it a step further," Sullivan explained.