Category: Patient Experience

Akron (Ohio) Children’s Hospital has expanded its collaboration with Cincinnati Children’s to provide a wider range of specialty care for children in eastern Ohio, the organization said April 16. 

Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center is planning to quickly reactivate its kidney transplant program, which the hospital halted earlier this month after discovering evidence of a physician allegedly altering transplant candidates’ medical records, the…

A physician was fired, and NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull was placed in immediate jeopardy, following two patient deaths in the hospital’s maternity ward, The New York Times reported April 11.

Physicians are reporting a surge in a mysterious medical condition notably affecting young, athletic women since the onset of the pandemic, The Washington Post reported April 10. 

A machine learning model accurately predicted the risk of about 3 in 4 hospital-acquired pressure injuries, according to a new study. 

The National Quality Forum is aiming to modernize and standardize serious adverse event reporting via a new patient safety effort.

Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston is halting its kidney transplant program days after announcing it would stop its liver transplant program, The Houston Chronicle reported April 9.

Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University Hospital received an immediate jeopardy warning — and resolved it in a few hours — after a disoriented nursing home resident walked out of the emergency department unnoticed, The Philadelphia Inquirer repo…

A fire in an intensive care unit room at Tulsa, Okla.-based Hillcrest Medical Center resulted in one patient being injured and six being moved to another unit.

TikTok can be a powerful platform for sharing medical information, and legislators should consider a national approach to preventing privacy issues rather than banning the app, Jason Bae, MD, an urgent care physician in Palo Alto, Calif., wrote in an A…