Category: Patient Experience

A Wisconsin family claims its daughter’s hospital room was filled with grime, dirt and bed bugs, CBS affiliate WDJT reported April 8.

A new case study found two infants born to mothers infected with COVID-19 suffered brain damage and offers the first direct evidence the SARS-CoV-2 virus can cross the placenta. 

Denver-based University of Colorado researchers found that gender and income influence might influence who receives advanced pulmonary support.

As gun violence continues to rise across the country — now accounting for 20 percent of childhood deaths — Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio is taking a nontraditional approach to reducing it in communities: with the use of virtual reality technol…

Operating room “black boxes” are growing in popularity as a way to improve patient safety and operational efficiency — and it likely will not be long before they spread to other departments.

New data from The Joint Commission found that of all reported sentinel events in 2022, 44 percent resulted in severe temporary harm and 20 percent resulted in a patient death.

Two people were killed and one was hospitalized after a medical helicopter crash April 2 in Chelsea, Ala., NBC affiliate WVTM reported.

The Joint Commission issued a quick safety advisory on March 27 with best practices and guidelines related to suicide risk screening. 

An unusual global outbreak of pediatric hepatitis cases in 2022 could be connected to multiple common viruses, according to multiple studies.