Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

 In October, a surgical team at NYU Langone Health performed a fully robotic double lung transplant, marking another global first at the New York City-based health system. 

Forty-two percent of Colorado hospitals are failing to comply with a state law designed to protect patient rights and expand access to care, according to a recent report from the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. 

The Joint Commission and National Association for Healthcare Quality have formed a strategic alliance to enhance quality training, certification and best practices globally.

As hospitals and health systems continue to grapple with escalating violence, Geising has seen success in their security measures, the American Medical Association said.

The patient safety movement has come to “a little bit of a standstill,” said Jefferson Health leader Oren Guttman, MD. 

The American College of Surgeons is urging more first responders to carry blood products in emergency vehicles to improve survival rates among patients with life-threatening bleeding. 

Richard Slayman, the first person in the world to receive a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, died from an “unexpected cardiac event,” his transplant surgeon said Nov. 13, according to The Boston Globe.

Among 1,009 patients who underwent surgery in a Massachusetts hospital in 2018, 38% experienced an adverse event — of which 26% were potentially preventable, according to a study published Nov. 13 in BMJ. 

In the last three years, U.S. hospitals performed more than 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries on Medicare beneficiaries, according to a Nov. 14 report by the Lown Institute Hospital Index.

The Joint Commission issued a sentinel event alert Nov. 13, urging hospitals to ensure they have sufficient plans in place to protect patients and staff during weather- and climate-related emergencies.