Category: Patient Experience

The Joint Commission recently updated its 20-year-old guidance on preventing surgical fires and burns, the organization said Oct. 18. 

An inmate escaped from Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Oct. 17 while still wearing handcuffs, WRAL News reported.

A man was found dead by suicide after he sneaked a gun into H. John Heinz III VA Medical Center in O’Hara, Pa., Trib Live reported Oct. 16.

A monkey in a clinical trial has survived two years with a genetically modified pig kidney. Now the study’s success is moving the needle toward gaining FDA approval to begin similar clinical trials in humans, CNN reported Oct. 12. 

A study found patients who receive sedation from an anesthesiologist, instead of a physician, are nearly 70% more likely to be discharged home than to a long-term care facility.

A lack of emergency blood transfusions is a national crisis “fueling” preventable deaths, three physicians wrote in a JAMA opinion piece Oct. 12.

Salt Lake City-based University of Utah has cut the ribbon on its new population health clinic, which it hopes will improve patient outcomes, identify unmet care needs and lower the overall cost of care, according to an Oct. 12 news release.

The American Academy of Neurology recently updated the guidelines for determining brain death in adult and pediatric patients.

Falls are the most common sentinel event resulting in harm or death of hospital patients so far in 2023, according to data from The Joint Commission. 

Four in 10 adults with a disability reported experiencing unfair healthcare treatment, an Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report found.