Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

The Joint Commission issued a quick safety advisory on March 27 with best practices and guidelines related to suicide risk screening. 

An unusual global outbreak of pediatric hepatitis cases in 2022 could be connected to multiple common viruses, according to multiple studies. 

In the year since RaDonda Vaught was convicted for a fatal medical error, much has been said from leaders at all levels of healthcare about the need to build a strong culture of safety and empower front-line workers to report errors. 

State health officials cited St. Luke’s Hospital-Monroe Campus for failing to properly monitor a patient experiencing suicidal ideation, The Morning Call reported March 27.

U.S. Catholic bishops issued a guideline March 20 that encourages Catholic hospitals to not offer gender-affirming medical treatments. 

It’s time for healthcare organizations to label health inequities as “never events” and abandon the idea that eliminating them is a “journey” or “marathon,” Maulik Joshi, DrPH, president and CEO of Hagerstown, Md.-based Meritus Health, wrote in a March…

Requiring the name and phone number of the individual responsible for picking a patient up and transporting them home after a procedure involving anesthetics has been routine safety practice for years — but can it be more of a burden than a benefit?

The first confirmed link between Parkinson’s disease and a red brain pigment has been made by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Medication discrepancies lead to the deaths of between 7,000 and 9,000 U.S. patients each year, but collecting a consolidated medication list before admission and upon discharge can significantly reduce the frequency, a study from Brigham and Women’s H…

A new labor and delivery model was recently implemented at Cleveland Clinic Akron General in Ohio, making it one of only four other hospitals in the nation to take the approach.