A proposed $793 billion cut to federal Medicaid spending is projected to cause 16,642 premature deaths among adults each year as Americans lose coverage, according to a study published June 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study from…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Patients whose first language is Spanish are more likely to acquire certain hospital-associated infections than those whose first language is English, according to a study by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente. Infection prevention personnel at Kaiser Permanente reviewed 6,813 publicly reported…
HHS officials ordered CMS to provide the personal data of Medicaid enrollees to the Department of Homeland Security in June, according to an exclusive report from the Associated Press. The shared data includes the immigration status of Medicaid enrollees in California,…
In the first half of 2025, eight systems have performed first-of-their-kind procedures and clinical treatments. 1. Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Heart and Vascular Institute physicians completed the world’s first robotic transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant and aortic valve replacement. The patient…
The world’s first patient to successfully receive a CRISPR gene-editing treatment was discharged from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on June 2, ABC News reported. KJ Muldoon, a 10-month-old who was born with severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, received the…
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The national birth rate is declining, but neonatal ICU admissions are increasing. Several factors are at play, according to neonatology experts Kristina Reber, MD, and Jae Kim, MD, PhD. Dr. Reber is executive vice chair of pediatrics and division chief…
When clinical leaders at Mercy Health St. Elizabeth Youngstown (Ohio) Hospital first proposed the goal of reaching zero hospital-acquired infections, some physicians balked. It was a lofty, impractical target, some said, given the complexity of the patient population at a…
A new study based on data from more than 20,000 patients has found statins may lower the risk of death in critically ill sepsis patients. To conduct the study, researchers pulled data from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV,…
In the aftermath of a broad consolidation of the CDC, health experts are voicing patient safety concerns for chronic disease patients, according to a June 11 NBC News report. Experts expressed alarm at the dissolution of an eight-person CDC team…
Health systems can achieve significant returns on investment by prioritizing quality and patient safety, according to a June 2 report from the National Association for Healthcare Quality. The report is among the first to quantify financial return on investing in…