The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating a safety event that affected four patients at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville, Tenn. The Tennessee Healthcare Facilities Commission informed the TBI of the situation on the evening of Aug. 14,…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
An ambulance diversion at an Illinois hospital in late July has drawn on-site scrutiny from state regulators and an ongoing federal review, according to statements shared with Becker’s. Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City went on ambulance diversion “for…
Health systems represented by the American Hospital Association’s past, current and incoming board chairs have signed on to HHS’ Make Hospital Food Healthier Pledge. Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Corewell Health, Houston Methodist and Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health all signed the…
Jefferson, La.-based Ochsner Transplant Institute recently completed 10,000 organ transplants, an accomplishment that Ari Cohen, MD, attributed to having a strong team that’s invested in the outcomes for patients. Ochsner’s first strategy for a successful transplant program is having the…
Hurricane Lala has closed off road access to Ka’u Hospital in Pahala, Hawaii, the only hospital serving the southeastern side of the Big Island, after the storm caused parts of Highway 11 and six bridges in the Ka’u District to…
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Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health is approaching behavioral health access challenges by first addressing one quality concern in particular: whether patients are actually getting better. That’s the premise behind the health system’s push to embed measurement-based care across its behavioral…
For 10 of Healthgrades’ “triple crown” awardees, the source of their success is a strong culture focused on the patient-first mindset and staff empowerment. Healthgrades recognized the 16 hospitals that earned Outstanding Patient Experience, Patient Safety Excellence, and America’s Best…
The CDC has issued a Health Alert Network advisory warning of the risk of severe arboviral neuroinvasive disease among patients receiving B cell-depleting or B cell-modulating medications, particularly anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies. Among published case reports of arboviral neuroinvasive disease in…
St. Louis-based Ascension closed the disparity in severe hospital-acquired pressure injuries between patients with light and dark skin tones to 0% in fiscal 2026, the health system said Aug. 11. The change followed a systemwide push to standardize skin-tone assessment…
UNC Health Pardee in Hendersonville, N.C., has been designated as a Level III Trauma Center by the state. The three-year designation follows a 12- to 15-month trauma operational period and an on-site review by trauma experts and state evaluators, according…