Category: Quality

Healthcare workers are primed to feel inadequate about their mistakes, their own mental or physical illness or their lack of ability to heal some patients, according to a perspective essay published Oct. 19 in The Lancet. 

The nation’s first Stillbirth Center of Excellence is at University of Utah Health, which offers a comprehensive approach to family support and mental health resources, the Salt Lake City-based system said.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals is working on its final step on the next wave of patient safety, Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, chief quality and clinical transformation officer of University Hospitals, told Becker’s.

St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia has been granted a three-year license after previous failed attempts, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Oct. 11.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has opened a new center to care for patients with complex chronic conditions, such as long COVID-19 and Lyme disease. 

A researcher at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor at Worcester-based University of Massachusetts Medical School have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine recently named Nadia Hansel, MD, physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. At the same time, she was appointed director of the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In …

Beginning Dec. 1, hospitals will be eligible to apply for a new credential offered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. 

In February, leaders of Cleveland-based University Hospitals realized two intensive care units at one of the system’s 21 hospitals were not achieving zero harm. After encouraging front-line workers to find their own solution, the units reported “breath…

In recent years, debates over scopes of practice and titles have intensified among associations representing physicians, advanced practice providers and other healthcare professionals.