Patient Safety & Outcomes

Serious workplace violent incidents are four times more likely to occur in healthcare environments than in private industry. In fact, healthcare accounts for nearly as many serious violent injuries as all other industries combined, according to the Occupational Safety and…

Three unrelated lockdowns at hospitals in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia this weekend underscore the continued threat of violence in hospitals. 

Virginia hospitals are helping treat at least 51 people who were injured in a 69-vehicle pileup on Interstate 64 Dec. 22,  The New York Times reports.

Concord (N.H.) Hospital diverted five emergency room patients to other medical centers Dec. 18 after a clogged drain caused a sewer backup and water drainage issue, according to the Concord Monitor.

Humana incorrectly billed military beneficiaries 100 times their monthly fees in a widespread glitch Dec. 5, according to Military.com.

A patient and three medics were injured after an IU Health ambulance collided with a semitruck in Blackford County, Ind., according to local news station WRTV.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital evacuated part of its emergency department Nov. 25 due to a potential hazmat situation, reports NBC Connecticut.

Two people were fatally shot Nov. 25 outside a Durham, N.C.-based medical clinic affiliated with the University of North Carolina, according to USA Today.  

The emergency room of North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minn., was on lockdown for about two hours after a brawl erupted Nov. 21, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Providence, R.I.-based Miriam Hospital went on a brief diversion Nov. 20 due to a possible fentanyl exposure, according to CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate WPRI 12.