A North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services investigation found no care deficiencies at HCA Healthcare’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. The investigation was conducted May 13-16 to evaluate the hospital’s compliance with Medicare conditions of participation, according to…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Over the past few weeks, The Joint Commission has unveiled new efforts to support healthcare organizations with safe and effective use of artificial intelligence, changed lab survey procedures and announced job cuts. Below are five key actions and updates from…
MyMichigan Medical Center Midland is working to filter its water systems after detecting low levels of Legionella bacteria. In May, the hospital learned that a former patient tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease, prompting initial testing, which showed low levels of…
A nephrology unit at Detroit-based Henry Ford Hospital has lowered Clostridioides difficile infections by 90% since 2023. Leaders at the hospital credit the progress to the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, or CUSP, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,…
Between 2003 and 2023, the national rate of unintentional falls increased more than 70% among adults 65 and older, according to CDC data published June 18. Fall death rates increased for several age groups over 65. For adults ages 65…
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Job cuts at the National Institutes of Health have left many cancer patients in limbo as they wait on their specialized treatment to be completed, The Washington Post reported June 18. Here’s what to know: 1. As of April, the…
Maine has become the second state in the U.S. to adopt legislation changing the “physician assistant” title to “physician associate.” The Maine State Legislature passed the bill June 2, and it was enacted June 16. The title change follows a…
A Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center team has performed a fully robotic heart transplant. The procedure marks the first fully robotic heart transplant to be performed on an adult patient in the U.S., according to a June 17 news…
A proposed $793 billion cut to federal Medicaid spending is projected to cause 16,642 premature deaths among adults each year as Americans lose coverage, according to a study published June 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study from…
Patients whose first language is Spanish are more likely to acquire certain hospital-associated infections than those whose first language is English, according to a study by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente. Infection prevention personnel at Kaiser Permanente reviewed 6,813 publicly reported…