Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

Ashville, N.C.-based Mission Health has terminated an employee after a patient died in an emergency department bathroom Feb. 10.

A systemwide initiative to reduce anesthesia-caused greenhouse gas emissions can succeed without compromising patient safety, according to researchers at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine. 

After Texas banned abortion in 2021, sepsis rates increased more than 50% for women hospitalized after losing their pregnancies in the second trimester, according to a ProPublica analysis. 

Surveying the U.S. healthcare landscape, some leaders are wondering, what if safety was valued as a purpose, rather than a priority? 

At Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip, N.Y., a new tool helped lower the prevalence of healthcare-associated pressure injuries by 67.84%. 

There has never been an effective therapy to reduce major adverse liver outcomes in some patients with severe liver scarring — though a recent Cleveland Clinic-led study shows promise. 

In January, the fourth person in the U.S. received a pig kidney transplant.

Boston-based Tufts University and Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente have partnered to form the Food Is Medicine National Network of Excellence, a national network focused on addressing food insecurity and improving community health.

In 2023, there was a drop in the maternal mortality rate for all but Black women, according to a Feb. 5 CDC report.

In the last two years, 12 people have reported injuries from a malfunctioning elevator at Miami VA Medical Center, the Miami Herald reported Feb. 5.