Patient Safety & Outcomes

Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip, N.Y., has fired a nurse who appears to have roughly handled a newborn baby on a video filmed by the child's father, according to a report from News12 New Jersey. 

Pennsylvania health officials have cited Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital for several safety issues in recent months, including a wrong-site surgery, Penn Live reported Feb. 23.

Another person has been cured of HIV, according to findings published Feb. 20 in Nature. 

Navigating nationwide staffing shortages while maintaining quality of care are just two of the many mounting challenges chief medical officers face, and seek to overcome, right now. 

Medtronic representatives are being accused of unethically persuading physicians to use its devices in procedures even when not medically necessary — something that research shows can be harmful to patients.

SARS-CoV-2 omicron infections are more likely to result in death than the flu inside hospitals, a study in Switzerland found. 

A surgical recovery program implemented by Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has so far shown a reduction in length of hospital stays by two days and a 44 percent decrease in opioid usage.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is leading an effort in the city alongside first responders to assess whether patients who do not respond to shock treatments during cardiac arrest outside the hospital are candidates for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO.

Cedars-Sinai researchers have confirmed a link between COVID-19 infections and a heightened risk for developing diabetes, according to a Feb. 14 press release.

Homelessness was declared a public health crisis by the American Public Health Association in 2017, but it remains a difficult, complex issue for cities and counties across the country to aid. Now, as part of new guidance in an effort…