California is considering a bill that would allow people with severe mental illness who commit violent crimes to be held in a state mental hospital for up to 30 days instead of only five, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Mar. 4.
Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes
Patient dead, 2 injured after ambulance accident
On March 3, an ambulance en route to a University of Kentucky hospital struck a guardrail and flipped over. The patient being transported died, and two EMTs were injured, police told local news outlets.
NYC Health + Hospitals expands lifestyle medicine program
NYC Health + Hospitals’ lifestyle medicine program has expanded to a fifth hospital, the New York City-based system said March 1.
Cone Health commits $3M to weapons detection expansion
Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health has invested in a weapons detection system as part of a $3 million package to bolster security in its emergency department and some of its public entrances at various hospitals, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s.
Care quality, safety 'worse than expected' during COVID-19 PHE: CMS
A new CMS report reveals disparities in care quality and patient safety within U.S. hospitals before and during the pandemic, finding “a large proportion of measures had worse than expected performance.”
Hospital staff experience workplace violence every 40 hours
Hospital staff members experience 1.17 aggressive events — verbal and/or physical — for every 40 hours worked, with more aggression events occurring when staff have significantly greater numbers of patients assigned to them, a recent study found.
Penn Medicine puts $28M toward weapons detection systems
For many working in healthcare, violence is a daily, palpable issue. Solving the crisis will involve consistent coordination between multiple stakeholders, but it starts with employers getting serious about prevention, executives at the University of P…
Long COVID therapies drag as research chugs along
Patient advocates and physicians are growing frustrated about the lack of treatments for long COVID-19 despite more than $1 billion of federal investments and continuous research, USA Today reported Feb. 26.
Surgery better for diabetes than medical, lifestyle changes, 4 systems find
Bariatric surgery is more effective for Type 2 diabetes patients than medical and lifestyle interventions, including GLP-1 use, according to a clinical trial among four health systems.
Endocrine Society to review clinical guidelines for gender-affirming care
The Endocrine Society, an 18,000-member organization, is reviewing its guidelines for appropriate care for transgender and gender-diverse people, CNN reported Feb. 26.
