A free example of a failure mode and effects analysis for anticoagulant therapy is available from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

Accounting for return visits to the emergency department following discharge may enhance current hospital readmission data, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

In fiscal year 2011, satisfaction with outpatient care at Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health Care was in the 38th percentile. Today, satisfaction is at the 75th percentile, according to Thomas Miller, MD, CMO of University of Utah Health…

While many hospitals, especially in New Jersey and New York, evacuated or took precautions in advance of Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, others were caught off guard. Extensive damage to residential and commercial properties from flooding and storm surge left…

Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark and the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine have announced a five-year partnership to help abate the physician shortage in rural Pennsylvania.

The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert for "alarm fatigue" among hospital staff — an overabundance of information transmitted by medical devices that can compromise patient safety.

Two hospitals in Massachusetts are taking steps to reduce readmissions (and the accompanying high costs and potential CMS penalties), according to a Worcester Telegram & Gazette report.

Saint Joseph Physician Network, a group of medical practices owned and operated by Mishawaka, Ind.-based Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, has affiliated with Midwest Cardiovascular Specialists, a five-physician practice in Mishawaka.

The Vermont Department of Health announced a plan, "Healthy Vermonters 2020," to improve the health of Vermont residents.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory on a novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus that has been detected in China.