Category: Patient Experience

CMS for the first time has proposed “baseline” requirements related to hospitals’ obstetrical services, which include standards related to staffing and emergency readiness. 

The second patient to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, and who lived with the organ for 47 days, died July 7, The New York Times reported July 9.

Around 13% of patients with a dementia diagnosis may instead have advanced liver disease — also called cirrhosis — which can cause reversible cognitive decline, researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and the Richmond VA …

Compared to white and cisgender adolescents, Black youth and transgender and nonbinary adolescents are less likely to be admitted for patient care, according to a study published July 8 in JAMA Pediatrics. 

Phoenix-based Mayo Clinic in Arizona performed the third total larynx transplant in the U.S. and the first to be performed on a patient with active cancer.

A recent report found that 54% of Americans have self-diagnosed using online information, with search engine and medical information websites being the most commonly used sources.

In 2012, a program for children’s hospitals in the U.S. and Canada launched to eliminate patient and employee harm.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has more than tripled the number of liver transplants performed since 2018.