Hospital workers and allies in Illinois and Indiana are urging The Joint Commission to add staffing standards to its accreditation and licensing process for healthcare facilities.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
A team of nurses at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System who led the successful postoperative care of the world's first human tracheal transplant patient have published their findings in Critical Care Nurse to guide nursing management of future…
A South Carolina hospital employee is dead and a patient has been charged with assault after a May 27 altercation between the two.
Two staff nurses and one emergency department physician were stabbed June 3 inside Encino (Calif.) Hospital Medical Center.
A woman was shot in the leg at Wayne UNC Health Care in Goldsboro, N.C., on June 5, which prompted a lockdown at the hospital for nearly an hour.
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HHS on June 1 issued a national framework to improve care for the 1 in 5 children in the U.S. who have special healthcare needs.
The Joint Commission has issued warnings about the importance of safety timeouts ahead of surgeries, released its list of the most challenging requirements for hospitals in 2021, and launched several new partnerships in the last few months.
Physicians transplanted the first 3D-printed ear in a woman using her own cells, The New York Times reported June 2.
Five people were killed and multiple others were injured June 1 in a mass shooting inside a medical office building on a hospital campus in Tulsa, Okla. It was the 233rd mass shooting in the U.S. this year.
A security guard died June 1 after he was shot by a jail inmate receiving care at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio.