Louisiana stores use color codes to quietly alert staff and shoppers to danger. Here’s what “Code Brown” may signal.

More hospitals in North Carolina have abandoned their color-coded alert systems for ones that use plain language in order to improve patient and guest safety and also shorten the response times of ...

This article, originally posted on Sept. 23, 2019, was last updated on Dec. 3, 2025. Please note that these statistics aren’t updated regularly. Always check with your state’s hospital associations ...