Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health has been given an up to $11.2 million, five-year HHS contract to develop a platform to test and validate new technologies designed to improve ICU patient outcomes. The federal program is called CIRCLE — the Critical…
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Suicide moved into the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. in 2024, even as the number of suicide deaths declined from the year before. The finding comes from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics’ Sept. 22 report,…
Ruston, La.-based Northern Louisiana Medical Center has been removed from a 90-day Medicare termination track after clearing all condition-level deficiencies identified in the recent regulatory survey process, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. The spokesperson said the Louisiana Department of…
Cleveland Clinic Children’s expanded newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus across Cleveland Clinic locations in Ohio, increasing detection rates by approximately 2.5 times. The screening program identified 34 babies with congenital cytomegalovirus, according to a Sept. 21 news release. The screening…
A blood test correctly identified 87% of stage 1 and 2 pancreatic cancers, according to a study published Sept. 16 in Nature Medicine. For the study, researchers from Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope tested the PANXEON liquid biopsy in nearly…
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Two UC Health emergency departments avoided more than 3,500 unnecessary head and cervical spine CT scans over 23 months with no missed injuries identified, according to a study published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. The quality improvement campaign…
Some 73% of medication reconciliation errors happen as patients move between care settings, patient safety organization ECRI said in a Sept. 16 report flagging care transitions as one of healthcare’s most dangerous moments. The figure comes from an ECRI analysis…
At a Sept. 16 panel at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, three health system technology leaders were asked to share an example of a project’s specific ROI. Chif Umejei, CIO at New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian, answered with…
Almost every hospital in the United States has run a patient safety initiative in the past five years. Most have run several. High reliability training, safety huddles, event reporting refreshes, zero-harm campaigns, culture surveys, action learning collaboratives. If you are…
A surgical team at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis successfully separated 2-year-old twin girls who were born conjoined at the head. The procedure, performed Feb. 24-25, took more than 24 hours from prep to close and…