Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia temporarily suspended nonessential clinical operations in response to a teen murder suspect that escaped police custody in the parking lot.

In an effort to focus on low-performing metrics, Scripps Health introduced “Sprint Teams,” a program aimed at addressing challenges and driving initiatives through direct engagement with front-line care teams. 

A new study based on data from more than 7,000 patients found collaborative care models in hospitals are tied to shorter hospital stays and other improved outcomes. 

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the U.S. to receive a successful gene therapy for congenital deafness, The New York Times reported Jan. 24.

A team of U.S. and international pediatric medical experts proposed a new definition of sepsis in children at the Society for Critical Care Medicine’s 2024 Critical Care Congress being held in Phoenix Jan. 21-23. 

Three crew members died in a medical helicopter crash in Oklahoma on Jan. 20, according to the air ambulance provider Air Evac Lifeteam.

Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania researchers completed the first successful experiment of circulating a deceased donor’s blood through a genetically engineered pig liver.

Close to 1 in 5 past diagnoses of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children would now not technically qualify as cases under an updated definition from the CDC, according to a study published Jan. 11 in Pediatrics.

There are no reported injuries following a Jan. 14 active shooter situation at Dillingham, Alaska-based Kanakanak Hospital, managed by Dillingham-based Bristol Bay Area Health Corp., according to a Jan. 14 news release shared with Becker’s.

Oklahoma University Health, located in Norman, is the first in the state to offer a tissue freezing procedure to promote fertility, the system announced Jan. 4.