The Joint Commission launched two outcomes-driven certifications March 30: one for perinatal care and the other for cardiac procedures. The perinatal care certification will evaluate hospitals’ maternal and newborn outcomes and patient care experiences. The cardiac certification will encompass several…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
CMS is piloting a new program that permits some clinicians to offer certain hemp-derived products to Medicare patients as part of their care plans. The new Substance Access Beneficiary Engagement Incentive is part of CMS’ Innovation Center model-testing framework, designed…
Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag named Aaron Ahearn, MD, PhD, surgical director for its liver and kidney transplant program. The program builds off Hoag’s liver and pancreas program and has been five years in development, according to a March 27 system…
Over the past few years, Ascension has increased mammograms by 10,000 and colon cancer screenings by 40,000 by using text-based “digital nudge” programs that prompt patients to schedule and complete care. The St. Louis-based system is now building on those…
Newport, Va.-based Riverside Regional Medical Center implemented a behavioral response team after identifying gaps in workplace violence prevention, increasing reporting by 245% from 2024 to 2025 and enabling real-time intervention for escalating behavioral health situations. The team is designed to…
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Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recently uncovered what they called a “leaky pipeline” of follow-up care for children with head trauma. An analysis using CHOP’s Minds Matter Registry — the nation’s largest pediatric concussion registry — showed disparities across…
Patient falls — a persistent healthcare safety issue — are more often tied to system failures than poor adherence to evidence-based interventions known as fall prevention bundles, according to a recent blog post from ECRI, a nonprofit patient safety organization.…
Sepsis was present in 17.8% of nearly 4 million pediatric hospital deaths between 2016 and 2023, according to a study published March 22 in JAMA. Researchers from academic institutions across the U.S. analyzed data from 3,925,809 pediatric hospitalizations across 245…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Health Network has seen double-digit growth in new patient appointments and heart services, thanks in part to a dyad partnership model among its leaders. New patient visits in the Health Network have had a compound annual growth…
Embedded hospital primary palliative care that was led by social workers and nurse practitioners had better patient outcomes than referral-based specialty palliative care, a recent study found. The study, published Feb. 17 in Journal of Palliative Medicine, analyzed data from…