Healthcare leaders are carefully weighing the wording of signs aimed at reducing workplace violence out of concern about violating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Among an array of efforts to minimize and prevent violence in healthcare settings —…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
A decadeslong frustration among midwives and hospitals could escalate, and harm patients, as more women choose home births, NBC News reported Feb. 26. Although a small percentage of U.S. mothers deliver infants at home, this minority is growing, according to…
Orlando-based AdventHealth Transplant Institute has successfully completed two new transplant procedures. The institute’s surgeons completed its first living donor liver transplant as part of a newly established program, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. This first procedure involved…
If hospitals do not blend their procurement decisions with overall performance strategy, they risk patient harm and losing CMS accreditation, according to a Feb. 24 article from Vizient, a healthcare performance improvement company. On Jan. 1, the Joint Commission implemented…
At Ascension, maternal morbidity rates are 20% below the national average for all patients and 32% below the national average for Black patients, according to Stacy Garrett-Ray, MD, chief community impact officer at the St. Louis-based health system. “Our outcomes…
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has revised its policy statement on facility-based requirements for pediatric anesthesia. The AAP last updated the policy statement in 2015. The new guidance reflects recent safety and quality data from the Wake Up Registry, which…
On Feb. 20, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists published its first clinical guidance on diagnosing endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disorder that affects 1 in 10 women of reproductive age. On average, patients wait four to 11 years after…
Some patients choose to bypass their nearest hospital to find surgical care further away, but this has negative consequences for outcomes and cost of care, a recent study found. The study, published Feb. 18 in the Journal of the American…
About a quarter of pregnant women are not receiving prenatal care in their first trimester, a new CDC report shows. The analysis, released Feb. 18, is based on national birth certificate data from the agency’s National Vital Statistics System. 1.…
Patients with gunshot wounds use more hospital resources, but are less likely to be covered by insurance compared to other patients, a recent study found. The study, published Feb. 18 in Cureus, drew from the American College of Surgeons’ National…