Patient Safety & Outcomes

Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora has created the state's first precision medicine institute to better integrate personalized care into patients' treatment. 

Anchorage-based Alaska Native Medical Center has submitted a corrective plan after federal regulators revoked the hospital's "deemed status," the Anchorage Daily News reported July 26.

The FDA, CDC and several states are investigating an outbreak of tuberculosis connected to recalled human bone tissue products that were sold to hospitals, surgical centers and dental clinics, the CDC said July 25.

People with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia end up in the emergency room about 1.4 million times every year, according to recent findings from researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 

In May, Birmingham, Ala.-based UAB Hospital made history by delivering the first baby after a uterus transplant outside of a clinical trial. 

In the everyday chaos of a busy hospital, it can become easy to find work-around solutions that push standards to the side in favor of getting the job done faster. But at what cost? 

Earlier this year, a team of clinicians at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai successfully performed a triple organ transplant on a patient with a rare inflammatory disease called sarcoidosis. 

Researchers at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital found a technique that shows promise in restoring fertility to ovaries that have stopped working.

Tampa, Fla.-based Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care Center is temporarily closed as the local fire department investigates the air quality after facing a potential explosion risk from 30, 100-pound lithium-ion batteries.

Patients who have had vascular surgeries are often readmitted to the hospital for a variety of reasons — often preventable — more often than patients who undergo different types of surgeries. These readmissions could be largely avoided if other aspects…