Encouraging flu vaccinations among hospital patients and staff cannot be overstated, according to Andrew Wallach, MD, ambulatory care chief at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and ambulatory care chief medical officer for the 11-hospital system. Dr. Wallach joined Becker’s Jan. 16…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
NYC Health + Hospitals has introduced shared medical visits for mothers and their newborns at its Jacobi and North Central Bronx hospitals, aiming to reduce barriers to postpartum care. The shared visits allow mothers and their babies to receive postpartum…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Transplant Center completed 960 solid organ transplants in 2025 — the most ever performed by a single center in one year — making it the largest transplant center by volume in the U.S. In addition to the…
For the first time in the 21st century, the U.S. recorded an isolated decrease in deceased kidney donations, according to a Jan. 14 report from the Kidney Transplant Collaborative. The report, “Losing Transplants for All the Wrong Reasons: A Statistical…
The Nevada Donor Network will manage organ procurement services in Southern Florida, CMS said Jan. 8, after the agency decertified the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency in September. The Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency was a division of the University…
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Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has built one of the country’s most ambitious transplant programs. Whether performing one of the first double lung-liver transplants in the U.S., eliminating all traces of colorectal cancer for a terminal patient through a liver transplant, providing…
After finding flaws with a federal patient safety metric, researchers at Los Angeles-based UCLA Health are calling for revisions. In a study published Oct. 12 in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, UCLA Health researchers outlined their concerns with “PSI 04:…
Police fatally shot a patient wielding a makeshift knife at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital on Jan. 8, The New York Times reported. The patient, a man in his early 60s, was admitted to the hospital Jan. 7. About 5:30 p.m.…
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare launched a clinical care redesign nearly a decade ago and saved $88 million in fiscal year 2025 through a multi-pronged approach, according to Chief Quality Officer Stephanie Calcasola, RN. The redesign focuses on reducing clinical variation, which…
Emotional safety should be assessed as a core component of patient safety, researchers at New York City-based NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing wrote in a Dec. 29 article published in Advances in Nursing Science. While current literature explores emotional…