Patient Safety & Outcomes

Tru-D device to help keep patients and staff safe and germ-free.

Disastrous flooding from Hurricane Irma forced the Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina to float surgeons across campus in johnboats. Now, as Hurricane Florence quickly approaches the southeastern coastline, MUSC has turned to the military for help, The Post and…

Police arrested and jailed a man reportedly involved in a Sept. 11 incident during which shots were fired at Kaiser Permanente Downey (Calif.) Medical Center, NBC4 News reports.

As Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm, nears the southeastern coastline of the U.S., hospitals and health systems across the Carolinas and Virginia, among other areas, are evacuating patients and providing alternate resources for people seeking medical care.

A discharged patient from Pompano Beach, Fla.-based Broward Health North stole an ambulance because he "needed a car" to get home, according to an NBC Miami news report.

A 79-year-old man fatally shot himself at Muscle Shoals, Ala.-based Shoals Hospital Sept. 9, according to WHTN News 19.

Chambersburg (Pa.) Hospital, part of Chambersburg-based Summit Health, transferred some patients and closed several patient rooms Sept. 7 due to weather-related moisture issues, according to a news release on the organization's website.

After a shooting erupted at the Fifth Third Center in Cincinnati Sept. 6, University of Cincinnati Medical Center emergency providers sprang into action within 10 to 15 minutes of getting a call from first responders, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

A fire broke out in  Whitehall, Wis.-based Gunderson Tri-County Hospital Sept. 4, forcing the evacuation of patients and staff as smoke filled the hallways, according to a WKBT news report.

Ketamine, an increasingly popular depression treatment, affects the brain like fentanyl and oxycodone, according to a study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.