The Nevada Donor Network will manage organ procurement services in Southern Florida, CMS said Jan. 8, after the agency decertified the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency in September. The Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency was a division of the University…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has built one of the country’s most ambitious transplant programs. Whether performing the first double lung-liver transplant in the U.S., eliminating all traces of colorectal cancer for a terminal patient through a liver transplant, providing an anesthesia-free…
After finding flaws with a federal patient safety metric, researchers at Los Angeles-based UCLA Health are calling for revisions. In a study published Oct. 12 in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, UCLA Health researchers outlined their concerns with “PSI 04:…
Police fatally shot a patient wielding a makeshift knife at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital on Jan. 8, The New York Times reported. The patient, a man in his early 60s, was admitted to the hospital Jan. 7. About 5:30 p.m.…
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare launched a clinical care redesign nearly a decade ago and saved $88 million in fiscal year 2025 through a multi-pronged approach, according to Chief Quality Officer Stephanie Calcasola, RN. The redesign focuses on reducing clinical variation, which…
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Emotional safety should be assessed as a core component of patient safety, researchers at New York City-based NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing wrote in a Dec. 29 article published in Advances in Nursing Science. While current literature explores emotional…
Hospitals in Illinois, Nebraska and Tennessee are implementing new strategies to improve maternal health and patient safety, according to a December report from the American Hospital Association. The efforts come as national progress on maternal health has stalled. For the…
CMS will end health equity and social drivers of health reporting requirements for its end-stage renal disease quality reporting and incentive programs on Dec. 31. CMS administers the End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System and the ESRD Quality Incentive Program…
Across 8,584 U.S. acute care hospital units, higher nurse turnover is significantly associated with increased patient falls, according to a study published Dec. 29 in JAMA. Previous research has detected this association, but there is limited evidence exploring the trend…
A security guard at M Health Fairview Lakes Medical Center has died after being assaulted by a patient on Dec. 25, according to the Wyoming Police Department. While working on Christmas Day, Andrea Merrell was reportedly attacked by a patient…