United Therapeutics Corp. opened its $110 million xenograft production facility, which will raise gene-edited pigs to provide transplant organs to humans, the Post Bulletin reported Sept. 1. Here is what to know. 1. The 65,000-square-foot, “designated pathogen-free” facility will be…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Ruston, La.-based Northern Louisiana Medical Center has until Oct. 1 to correct patient care deficiencies or lose its Medicare funding, according to CBS and ABC affiliate KNOE. The 130-bed hospital, operated by Shreveport, La.-based Allegiance Health Management, must submit an…
When LeWanza Harris, MD, chief quality officer of Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, dug deeper into the system’s sepsis data last year, the metrics told a story of fragmentation across the system’s 11 hospitals. “The performance was inconsistent and in places low,”…
A medication mix-up at Ascension St. Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville, Tenn., severely harmed four surgical patients and placed the hospital in immediate jeopardy on three CMS conditions of participation, a state survey found. On Aug. 14, four patients undergoing…
Eight professional societies and the Sepsis Alliance published a position paper Aug. 25 in Clinical Infectious Diseases, outlining strategies for hospitals to improve sepsis outcomes. Four things to know: 1. The Infectious Diseases Society of America spearheaded the effort, developing…
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A medication mix-up that paralyzed a 72-year-old Nashville, Tenn., patient has pulled national pharmacy and anesthesiology groups into renewed scrutiny of whether clinicians should be criminally charged for errors. On Aug. 14, four joint replacement patients at Ascension St. Thomas…
Officials in Aiken, S.C., have charged a woman in connection with shots fired inside Aiken Regional Medical Centers the night of Aug. 25. No one was injured, according to the local police department and hospital. Officers with the Aiken Department…
Twelve days after a medication error at an Ascension hospital in Nashville, Tenn., harmed four patients, one of them is paralyzed below the sternum and being treated in Chicago, The New York Times reported Aug. 26. The hospital, Ascension St.…
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and 128 other patient advocacy and professional groups submitted a comment letter Aug. 24 urging HHS’ Office of Inspector General to create a safe harbor under the federal anti-kickback statute allowing clinical trial…
About 21% of staff at Solnit South, Connecticut’s psychiatric hospital for children based in Middletown, are out on workers’ compensation for injuries sustained on the job, the Hartford Courant reported Aug. 24. Lawmakers have called the situation a “safety crisis,” while employees…