Category: Patient Experience

Tampa General Hospital performed the world’s first in-human pancreas transplant with a new technology that preserved the organ.

In its first six months of operation, Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare’s EmPATH unit helped more than 1,800 patients and reduced emergency department readmissions.

The Women’s Choice Award has recognized 457 hospitals on its annual list of the Best Hospitals for Patient Safety.

Plain language announcements may improve hospital staff responses to nonclinical emergencies compared to traditional coded messages, according to a new nurse-led study from Cleveland Clinic.

In 2024, nurses filed hundreds of safety concerns about two Massachusetts hospitals operated by Dallas-based Tenet Health. Most recently, a union representing these nurses alleged that understaffing caused two preventable patient deaths. 

An HCA Healthcare hospital in Richmond, Va., is temporarily suspending admissions to its neonatal intensive care unit after discovering three infants with what the hospital called “unexplainable fractures” in late November and December. 

A New York system is rescheduling Dec. 26 in-person appointments at its health and wellness plaza because of a water main break. 

A New York system is rescheduling Dec. 26 in-person appointments at its health and wellness plaza because of a water main break. 

A team at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center set an institutional record by transplanting 10 kidneys in two days using a 20-person chain. 

In states with total abortion bans, federal law requires physicians to provide an abortion if it stabilizes an emergency condition, but hospitals are leaving physicians to fend for themselves to navigate this “minefield,” according to a Senate Finance …