At Trinity Health, building trust and improving the patient experience comes with a side of hospital-grown vegetables and herbs. The Livonia, Mich.-based system owns and operates multiple hospital-based farms in its 25-state footprint as part of its Food is Medicine…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
New York state has launched a pilot program to integrate firearm access and injury risk screening into emergency department visits. The initiative, supported by a $1.5 million investment from the New York State Office of Gun Violence Prevention, expands New…
A team at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute successfully employed a robotic device to place a patient’s central line. Vanderbilt Health is one of five centers selected by the FDA to study the Obvius Robotics device for central…
Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger will phase in metal detector screenings at all hospital entrances this year, starting with Geisinger Medical Center, also in Danville, on March 30. All visitors, patients and staff entering through public entrances will be screened, similar to…
A cyberattack on Stryker has disrupted parts of its supply chain, delaying surgical procedures for some health systems. The medical devicemaker said disruptions to ordering, manufacturing and shipping have limited its ability to deliver patient-specific products, forcing some procedures to…
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A lifestyle medicine program at New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals is helping patients with chronic disease feel healthier and achieve measurable clinical improvements through nutrition, exercise and behavioral support. Over a monthslong period, the lifestyle medicine program includes…
A Department of Veterans Affairs employee was shot March 17 at Pickens County VA Clinic in Jasper, Ga., and died March 18. Nicholas Crews, 34, of Marietta, Ga., was shot while working as a social work care manager at the…
After receiving its third immediate jeopardy designation in less than two years, Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital has outlined a series of corrective actions — including reassessing the “capacity and competency” of its leadership and staff — as part of an…
Nearly half of healthcare employees report a low perception of safety culture, according to Press Ganey’s “State of Healthcare Safety 2026” report. The report draws on 2025 data from 1.3 million healthcare workers — including nurses, physicians, security professionals and…
Ascension has prevented thousands of deaths and reduced serious safety events across its hospitals through systemwide initiatives, according to the health system. The St. Louis-based health system — the fifth largest in the U.S. — operates 90 wholly owned or…