Hospital workers and allies in Illinois and Indiana are urging The Joint Commission to add staffing standards to its accreditation and licensing process for healthcare facilities.
Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes
Mount Sinai nurses share lessons to guide care of future tracheal transplants
A team of nurses at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System who led the successful postoperative care of the world’s first human tracheal transplant patient have published their findings in Critical Care Nurse to guide nursing management of futur…
Prisma Health employee dead after patient altercation
A South Carolina hospital employee is dead and a patient has been charged with assault after a May 27 altercation between the two.
2 nurses, physician stabbed at California hospital
Two staff nurses and one emergency department physician were stabbed June 3 inside Encino (Calif.) Hospital Medical Center.
Visitor injured in shooting at Wayne UNC Hospital
A visitor was shot at Wayne UNC Health Care in Goldsboro, N.C., on June 5, which prompted a lockdown at the hospital for nearly an hour, The News & Observer reports.
HHS aims to improve care for kids with special health needs
HHS on June 1 issued a national framework to improve care for the 1 in 5 children in the U.S. who have special healthcare needs.
6 recent moves from The Joint Commission
The Joint Commission has issued warnings about the importance of safety timeouts ahead of surgeries, released its list of the most challenging requirements for hospitals in 2021, and launched several new partnerships in the last few months.
6 recent moves from The Joint Commission
The Joint Commission has issued warnings about the importance of safety timeouts ahead of surgeries, released its list of the most challenging requirements for hospitals in 2021, and launched several new partnerships in the last few months.
Physicians transplant first 3D-printed ear
Physicians transplanted the first 3D-printed ear in a woman using her own cells, The New York Times reported June 2.
5 dead in Oklahoma hospital campus shooting
Five people were killed and multiple others were injured June 1 in a mass shooting inside a medical office building on a hospital campus in Tulsa, Okla. It was the 233rd mass shooting in the U.S. this year.
