Patient Safety & Outcomes

Richmond, Va.-based Chippenham Hospital, a part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, relocated 11 of its most critical patients to nearby HCA hospitals after suffering a power outage July 10, WRIC reports.

Medicare patients who died in 2015 were more likely to die in their home and less likely to die in a hospital than those who died in 2000, a study published in JAMA found.

An ambulance rollover in Whately, Mass., sent five passengers to the hospital with serious injuries June 27, reports the Greenfield Recorder.

A zone outside of Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is now designated for police transporting gunshot wound victims, according to The Inquirer.

Among the medical community, there is a growing case against intravenous Tylenol, which gained popularity as hospitals shift away from prescribing opioids for pain management, according to The Washington Post.

The previously accepted notion of using opioids to completely eradicate pain has caused U.S. physicians to prescribe 50 times more opioids than the rest of the world combined, Heather Tick, MD, clinical associate professor in both the departments of family…

The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has identified the body of the 33-year-old woman found dead in a hallway at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital June 4, the San Francisco Examiner reports.

Physicians are making strides in fighting the opioid crisis, but the epidemic won't end without expanded access to better treatment for pain and substance abuse, the American Medical Association reported.

An ambulance was struck by a bullet May 27 while transporting an unruly patient to a hospital in Chicago, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Police confirmed a 23-year-old man shot himself in the head in the triage area of Abilene, Texas-based Hendrick Medical Center's emergency room May 23, according to the Abilene Reporter News.