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 Experience
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…
73% of insured Americans say getting mental healthcare was easy
Seventy-three percent of insured Americans said getting mental healthcare was easy, according to a survey released June 7 by health insurer lobby and trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans.
Inpatient volumes poised to grow 2% over next 10 years
Adult inpatient volumes will recover to pre-pandemic numbers but grow only 2 percent over the next decade, a new report from Sg2 forecasts.
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.
NewYork-Presbyterian CXO Rick Evans: An HCAHPS update is needed urgently
Virtually every adult inpatient hospital in America administers the HCAHPS survey to patients. The data from these surveys are publicly reported for all to see, and star ratings are assigned to hospitals based on this patient feedback. In addition, res…
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.
Gen Z wants social determinants of health screenings from providers
Young patients want their providers to ask about social determinants of health such as housing and food access, according to findings from a recent poll led by researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
