Akron (Ohio) General Health System is accusing physician-investors in a joint venture with rival network Summa Health System of steering patients to their hospital, according to a report by the Akron Beacon Journal.

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has launched the Maryland Hospital Hand Hygiene Collaborative campaign to enhance the prevention of healthcare-associated infections in Maryland hospitals, at the recommendation of the Maryland Health and Quality Cost Council, according to…

Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I., has been fined $150,000 by the Rhode Island Department of Health for a wrong-site surgery, marking only the second time the Department has fined a hospital for this kind of error, according to a…

Palm Beach County (Fla.) officials recently met to discuss ways to improve healthcare for the county's poor and is considering a public takeover of St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., according to a report by the Palm…

ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, in collaboration with the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, has released important changes to its recommendations for preventing surgical fires, according to an ERCI news release.

The "Best Hospitals" chosen by U.S. News and World Report are not the biggest favorites of hospital patients, as determined in federal patient satisfaction surveys, but the magazine won't be adding patient satisfaction scores to its methodology, according to an…

Here are 12 statistics about medical directors from Integrated Health Strategies' 2009 Medical Director Survey. The survey collected data from 160 organizations, 2,600 individual medical directors and 66 different medical director positions.

A study recently published in Gastroenterology suggests the endoscopist-directed propofol sedation is safer than endoscopist-delivered benzodiazepines and opioids and as equally safe as general anesthesia delivered by anesthesiologists.

Mortality rates in U.S. hospitals have improved since last year but there are still wide variations in mortality among hospitals, according to the 2009 HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study.

The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program has adopted the 34 safe practices endorsed by the National Quality Forum's Safe Practices 2009 Update, and these practices will be implemented by HFAP-accredited hospitals, effective Dec. 1, 2009, according to a HFAP news release.