Patient Safety & Outcomes

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.

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. 

Pulse oximeter measurements are less accurate among Black, Hispanic and Asian COVID-19 patients compared to white patients. These inaccuracies may have led to minority patients receiving delayed or no treatment, according to a study published May 31 in JAMA Internal…

Freeing up nurses to spend more time on patient care may reduce sepsis deaths among the Medicare population, a study published May 27 in JAMA Health Forum suggests.

Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla., failed to provide emergency care to an unresponsive heart failure patient because hospital staff could not verify his status as a veteran, according to a May 31 report from the Department of…