Even as patient acuity climbed over the last several years, hospitals posted notable gains in mortality and reductions in two major hospital-acquired infections, a new Vizient report found. The Jan. 22 report is based on an analysis of the Vizient…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has the highest survival rates for pediatric liver transplants in the U.S., according to newly released data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. The hospital reported 100% one-year and 98.4% three-year patient survival for liver…
National healthcare organizations released an updated guidance on emergency department pediatric readiness Jan. 20, which, if met, could prevent more than 2,100 pediatric deaths every year, according to research published in JAMA. However, the study found this standard is present…
All four astronauts from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission were transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla in San Diego after landing off the coast of Southern California on Jan. 15. The return marked the first medical evacuation in the history…
Encouraging flu vaccinations among hospital patients and staff cannot be overstated, according to Andrew Wallach, MD, ambulatory care chief at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and ambulatory care chief medical officer for the 11-hospital system. Dr. Wallach joined Becker’s Jan. 16…
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NYC Health + Hospitals has introduced shared medical visits for mothers and their newborns at its Jacobi and North Central Bronx hospitals, aiming to reduce barriers to postpartum care. The shared visits allow mothers and their babies to receive postpartum…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Transplant Center completed 960 solid organ transplants in 2025 — the most ever performed by a single center in one year — making it the largest transplant center by volume in the U.S. In addition to the…
For the first time in the 21st century, the U.S. recorded an isolated decrease in deceased kidney donations, according to a Jan. 14 report from the Kidney Transplant Collaborative. The report, “Losing Transplants for All the Wrong Reasons: A Statistical…
The Nevada Donor Network will manage organ procurement services in Southern Florida, CMS said Jan. 8, after the agency decertified the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency in September. The Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency was a division of the University…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has built one of the country’s most ambitious transplant programs. Whether performing one of the first double lung-liver transplants in the U.S., eliminating all traces of colorectal cancer for a terminal patient through a liver transplant, providing…