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The new addition, known as the “Orange Pod,” officially opens at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. It adds 23 rooms to the emergency department, which now has a total of 57 rooms. With more than 100,000 visits per years to the emergency department, hospital officials say the extra rooms will help accommodate the increasing traffic.

Code Purple is when a child greater than 12 months of age is suspected or confirmed as missing.

Gold Pod. For patients with less serious illnesses who generally do not require complex evaluations and/or testing. At times these patients are seen ahead of other patients because availability of treatment space varies.

PATIENTS, FAMILIES APPLYING FOR HCAP Patients interested in applying for HCAP or patients who have a question about the status of a pending HCAP application should contact the hospital where care was provided. Hospitals manage the application process.

Code Yellow is a term used in hospitals to indicate a situation in which a patient or visitor is missing or lost. The hospital staff is alerted, and a search is conducted to locate the missing person. Code Yellow is sometimes called a "Missing Patient Alert."

Purple is for “the purple pod” which is the psychiatric section of Hartford Hospitals ER. Light is to represent our light always being on for those suffering from a mental health crisis.