Newport, Va.-based Riverside Regional Medical Center implemented a behavioral response team after identifying gaps in workplace violence prevention, increasing reporting by 245% from 2024 to 2025 and enabling real-time intervention for escalating behavioral health situations. The team is designed to…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recently uncovered what they called a “leaky pipeline” of follow-up care for children with head trauma. An analysis using CHOP’s Minds Matter Registry — the nation’s largest pediatric concussion registry — showed disparities across…
Patient falls — a persistent healthcare safety issue — are more often tied to system failures than poor adherence to evidence-based interventions known as fall prevention bundles, according to a recent blog post from ECRI, a nonprofit patient safety organization.…
Sepsis was present in 17.8% of nearly 4 million pediatric hospital deaths between 2016 and 2023, according to a study published March 22 in JAMA. Researchers from academic institutions across the U.S. analyzed data from 3,925,809 pediatric hospitalizations across 245…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Health Network has seen double-digit growth in new patient appointments and heart services, thanks in part to a dyad partnership model among its leaders. New patient visits in the Health Network have had a compound annual growth…
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Embedded hospital primary palliative care that was led by social workers and nurse practitioners had better patient outcomes than referral-based specialty palliative care, a recent study found. The study, published Feb. 17 in Journal of Palliative Medicine, analyzed data from…
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…
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…