Patient Safety & Outcomes

At the end of March 2020, David Smith, a U.K. patient in his 70s, tested positive for COVID-19. He continued testing positive for more than 290 days until early March 2021 and is believed to have had the longest documented…

After The Joint Commission issued a preliminary denial of accreditation for Cranston, R.I.-based Eleanor Slater Hospital, Gov. Dan McKee released a list of health and safety issues at the hospital, reports WPRI.

The Joint Commission and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists will offer a Maternal Levels of Care Verification program for hospitals starting Jan. 1, 2022, the organizations said June 23.

U.S. hospitals must ramp up efforts to track and prevent non-ventilator-associated, hospital-acquired pneumonia, healthcare leaders wrote in a commentary published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine obtained Independence Blue Cross clinical care innovation grants for three projects that aim to improve patient health and wellbeing.

The benefits of using a combination treatment for children who develop a rare inflammatory condition after contracting COVID-19 is still unclear, two new studies show.

A sepsis prediction model developed by Epic and used by hundreds of U.S. hospitals and health systems performs worse than claimed on the prediction tool's fact sheet, according to a validation study published June 21 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The Joint Commission issued a preliminary denial of accreditation for Cranston, R.I.-based Eleanor Slater Hospital, effective June 17, reports WPRI. 

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to offer gender-affirming surgeries to transgender veterans, VA Secretary Denis McDonough said June 19, according to The New York Times.

Amid a severe national blood shortage, some physicians are reserving blood for the most critical patients, ABC News reported June 20.