Who rescues the hospital-at-home patient at 2 a.m.? On a hospital unit, a deteriorating patient is a call light away from a nurse, and a rapid response team is down the hall. In a hospital-at-home program, that same patient may…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
For decades, researchers have sought to develop vaccines to treat cancer, but progress has been limited by the complexity of the disease, the diversity of cancer types and biological differences among individual patients. Now, a personalized cancer vaccine has succeeded…
Ochsner Children’s, part of New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, has joined the Tiny Baby Collaborative, an international research network focused on infants born at 23 weeks’ gestation or earlier. The neonatal intensive care unit at Ochsner Baptist in New Orleans will…
HHS has expanded its regional sickle cell disease care network from five to seven regions through a new program administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The Sickle Cell Disease Regional Care Excellence Program funds regional coordinating hubs designed…
The cafeteria at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago had its license suspended Oct. 16 for a failed health inspection due to a cockroach infestation, the Chicago Department of Public Health confirmed to Becker’s. Inspectors observed more than 200…
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The board chair of the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., has admonished HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for opening a vaccine injury clinic at the hospital, The New York Times reported Oct. 16. In a six-minute opening statement…
Academic health systems are opening their own longevity medicine programs amid growing demand for preventive care, The New York Times reported Oct. 16. Since last fall, Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai, Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine and New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine have…
A surgical team at Cleveland Clinic became the first in Ohio to perform an ex vivo intestinal autotransplantation. The procedure involved removing an abdominal tumor, the pancreatic head and small intestine as one unit, then reimplanting the small intestine after…
Pediatric infectious disease specialists in Pennsylvania, home to the nation’s largest measles outbreak in more than three decades, are treating an influx of children with severe complications from a virus many physicians have little experience with, NBC News reported Oct.…
As hospitals are filled with patients beyond capacity, boarding times in the ED rise. A recent study of 46 million ED visits found that more than one in four admitted patients now wait beyond the four-hour safety standard for an…