Category: Quality

Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit health system, established its Food Is Medicine Center of Excellence on April 11. 

Clinicians said improving staffing ratios and increasing annual salary could have the biggest effect on quality of care for patients, according to an April 11 Soliant Health report.

The American Academy of Physician Associates is aiming to increase diversity within the profession via a new initiative, the organization said April 11.

Oregon has become the first state in the U.S. to adopt legislation changing the “physician assistant” title to “physician associate.” 

Seven states have adopted legislation to enact the PA Licensure Compact, meaning the model is now activated, the American Academy of Physician Associates said April 5.

Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston has voluntarily stopped its liver transplant program after learning of and investigating what it calls “irregularities with donor acceptance criteria.”

The FDA has authorized the nation’s first AI-powered sepsis detection tool, artificial intelligence company Prenosis said April 3. 

West Virginia is now the fifth state to enact the PA Licensure Compact, the ​​American Academy of Physician Associates said March 28.

Healthcare workers and other experts are expressing concern over the CDC’s draft masking guidelines, saying that, if finalized, the guidance would incentivize hospitals to prioritize profits over protection, NBC News reported March 18.

The most effective chief quality officers possess a fluency in two distinct tongues: the language of people — rich with the nuances of human connection and collaboration — and the language of spreadsheets, marked by the objective precision of data.&nbs…