Anesthesia services influence far more than the operating room. They affect surgical growth, provider relationships, operational efficiency and hospital financial performance. Hospitals across the country are reevaluating anesthesia partnerships as staffing shortages, surgical demand and financial transparency become increasingly important…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
California regulators found that Los Robles Regional Medical Center used contaminated surgical instruments on patients in three procedures and did not report a related adverse event to the state as required. The findings come from a California Department of Public…
Two patients who received genetically engineered pig kidney transplants at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have since successfully undergone human donor kidney transplants, Cambridge, Mass.-based eGenesis said in a Sept. 3 update on its Expanded Access program. The cases mark…
The Lindsay Clancy case has shone a spotlight on maternal mental healthcare. Ms. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, The New York Times…
In 2023, nearly one in three women ages 21-29 had never received cervical cancer screening, according to a study published Aug. 27 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Charleston, S.C.-based Medical University of South Carolina’s Hollings Cancer Center analyzed data…
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United Therapeutics Corp. opened its $110 million xenograft production facility, which will raise gene-edited pigs to provide transplant organs to humans, the Post Bulletin reported Sept. 1. Here is what to know. 1. The 65,000-square-foot, “designated pathogen-free” facility will be…
Ruston, La.-based Northern Louisiana Medical Center has until Oct. 1 to correct patient care deficiencies or lose its Medicare funding, according to CBS and ABC affiliate KNOE. The 130-bed hospital, operated by Shreveport, La.-based Allegiance Health Management, must submit an…
When LeWanza Harris, MD, chief quality officer of Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, dug deeper into the system’s sepsis data last year, the metrics told a story of fragmentation across the system’s 11 hospitals. “The performance was inconsistent and in places low,”…
A medication mix-up at Ascension St. Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville, Tenn., severely harmed four surgical patients and placed the hospital in immediate jeopardy on three CMS conditions of participation, a state survey found. On Aug. 14, four patients undergoing…
Eight professional societies and the Sepsis Alliance published a position paper Aug. 25 in Clinical Infectious Diseases, outlining strategies for hospitals to improve sepsis outcomes. Four things to know: 1. The Infectious Diseases Society of America spearheaded the effort, developing…