When hospitals are ranked by reliable sources — such as The Leapfrog Group, CMS and U.S. News & World Report — top scores go a long way to reaffirming safety and satisfaction efforts for both patients and staff. Similarly, lower scores highlight where …
There’s a plethora of factors propelling the upward trend of hospital-acquired infections and outbreaks, meaning hospitals’ prevention efforts need to be complex, too, experts told Becker’s.
The American Hospital Association has selected Bryn Mawr, Pa.-based Main Line Health as the 2023 recipient of its Quest for Quality Prize.
President Joe Biden has selected retired Maj. Gen. Paul Friedrichs, MD, to serve as inaugural director of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, effective Aug. 7.
The Joint Commission is eliminating 200 additional standards from its accreditation programs for ambulatory and behavioral health centers, critical access hospitals, laboratories and nursing homes, marking the accrediting body’s second major set of red…
A newly released podcast from The New York Times delves into the story of how a nurse’s tampering with pain medication led to an estimated hundreds of women undergoing painful egg retrieval procedures at the Yale Fertility Center.
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is taking a new approach to quality with the launch of “For Every Patient” — a four-pillar strategy to standardize practices and improve patient outcomes, according to a July 6 report from the Boston Busines…
Most physician assistants are in favor or neutral about changing their official title to “physician associate,” according to Medscape’s “Physician Assistant Career Satisfaction Report” released June 30.
Clinicians felt isolated and disconnected from life outside work during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the frontline workers reported depleting motivation levels, a new study suggests.
Higher-ups within HCA Healthcare place pressure on staff in hospitals to persuade patients’ families to initiate end-of-life care, which can limit treatments for patients but curb in-hospital mortality rates and length of stay for the hospital operator…
