Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

Patient advocacy groups are expressing frustration over the federal government’s lack of progress in identifying long COVID treatments, NPR reported Nov. 25. 

Endeavor Health Elmhurst (Ill.) Hospital is one of only 12 U.S. hospitals to achieve consecutive “A” ratings from Leapfrog since 2012, when the organization began biannual safety rankings. Becker’s found out why. 

The National Infusion and Vascular Access Society says nurses need more education and training on infiltration and extravasation, Nursing Times reported Nov. 25. 

 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.