A former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., accused of inadvertently injecting a patient with a fatal medication dose has been indicted on charges of reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse, The Tennessean reports.

Hospitals keep making preventable mistakes, and patients continue to pay the ultimate price for them. Just before the new year, an update of the investigation by The Wall Street Journal found that more than 100 psychiatric hospitals hold their accreditation despite safety violations, 16 percent of them severe.

Hospital sinks stationed near toilets in patient rooms may act as reservoirs for Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing bacteria, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

CMS placed Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville, Wis., on "immediate jeopardy" in 2016 after a man visited the hospital with suicidal thoughts and committed suicide the same day, reports the GazetteXtra.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital has treated two patients with measles in the last two weeks, according to the New Haven Register.

Two patients come to a hospital. One is experiencing breathing difficulty, dizziness and incessant bleeding. The other frequently seeks medical care, has heart problems and is experiencing abdominal pain and pronounced swelling in his legs and ankles.

CMS recently announced the final Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule for fiscal year 2019, invasive cardiac diagnostic procedures join the ranks of the newest procedures to be conducted in the ambulatory surgery centers. Increasingly, procedures that were the private domain of the acute care hospital will now be conducted and reimbursed by CMS in ASCs.

The World Health Organization should declare the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak an international public health emergency, a group of health experts wrote in an article published Feb. 4 in The Lancet.

Three reviews that Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare commissioned found its paramedics and research staff acted appropriately in its ketamine study of agitated patients, which drew criticism last year, according to the Star Tribune.

CMS has notified Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System that two of its hospitals involved in an investigation of patient deaths could lose Medicare funding due to serious pharmaceutical services deficiencies, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

CMS placed Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., on "immediate jeopardy" after finding significant safety issues during a January inspection, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Clinicians can focus on several key ways to reduce sepsis mortality, including patient monitoring and early detection, according to a video interview released by the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety.

In 2016, Chang Hun Lee — a senior at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — founded an innovative startup that helps people monitor their health, all using a pocket-sized device.

As U.S. flu activity increases, the CDC has confirmed 43,071 positive respiratory specimens for influenza A since Sept. 30, according to the CDC's most recent FluView report.

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi achieved a 53 percent reduction in deep vein blood clot cases in one year by implementing new postsurgical care protocols.

The second-worst Ebola outbreak in history is showing no signs of slowing in the Democratic Republic of Congo after six months, reports ABC News.

A recent study published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology and featured by CNN builds on previous research, confirming adults believe girls show more emotion and boys are more stoic when expressing pain.

An emergency room nurse at Detroit-based Henry Ford Hospital who created a screening protocol to identify patients in danger from human trafficking has helped 17 people over the last year, according to FOX Detroit.

Although pediatric hospitalization rates declined between 2010 and 2016 in the U.S., readmission rates increased, particularly among children with complex chronic conditions, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Although artificial intelligence is being promoted as a way to diagnose patient conditions and predict patients' risk of being admitted to an intensive care unit, the use of AI in medicine could worsen health disparities, a physician writes in The New York Times.