Patient Safety & Outcomes

A patient started a fire at Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital this weekend, causing some damage to the facility, according to the Daily News Journal.

California health officials will investigate Los Angeles County's safety-net healthcare system after a report highlighted clinician concerns about long wait times for specialty care, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Three hospitals achieved a more than 60 percent reduction in pressure injuries through a collaborative project with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. 

A registered nurse who formerly worked at Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents in New Kent, Va., is calling for it to be shut down after she said she witnessed child abuse at the facility, according to CBS 6. 

A patient was shot by police at West Carson, Calif.-based Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Oct. 6, according to NBC Los Angeles.

More than 80 percent of COVID-19 patients hospitalized at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine this spring had neurological symptoms, according to a study published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 

Increasing unemployment rates triggered by an economic recession are linked to a rise in hospitalizations involving children, a study published in Health Affairs found. 

In today’s healthcare environment, it’s more important than ever to make sure childbirth is a safe, pleasant experience. Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., has adopted enhanced recovery after cesarean section protocols, or ERACS, to ensure a safe and positive…

Chronic wounds, like pressure injuries and diabetic foot ulcers, affect more than 6 million people in the U.S.1

Increased nurse staffing levels and intensivist hours were linked to significantly lower sepsis rates at a sample of Massachusetts hospitals, a study published in Critical Care Nurse found.