Although the CDC projects a moderate influenza season this winter, U.S. hospitals face a plethora of changes, including federal vaccine policy shifts, hospital-at-home disruptions and a growing measles outbreak. The 2024-25 flu season was among the most severe since 2010,…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
With a new partnership, Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health will wield a Press Ganey model to centralize routine operations, such as tiered huddles, leader rounding and dashboards, into one management system. The 19-hospital system will connect “siloed workstreams” with the Press…
Starting in 2026, The Joint Commission will formally recognize nurse staffing as a national performance goal, meaning hospitals seeking accreditation must meet certain standards related to staffing and oversight. Under the new element of performance, known as Goal 12, healthcare…
Teams at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and St. Louis-based WashU Medicine Heart Center performed its first living pediatric “domino” partial heart transplant. The achievement marks the eighth program in the U.S. to successfully complete a pediatric domino heart transplant, according…
RWJBarnabas Health, a 14-hospital system based in West Orange, N.J., said Oct. 9 it is widening its community health worker program across its enterprise. The program launched in 2023 to improve health outcomes while reducing barriers to care and hospital…
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For Dai Chung, MD, chief medical executive at Children’s Health, clinical excellence derives from following what he calls the hospital’s North Star — “putting patients first.” And the results could not be more clear: Children’s Medical Center Dallas, the flagship…
By early December, Florida’s health department could revoke several vaccine requirements for school children. The state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, said Sept. 3 the Florida Department of Health plans to scrap all vaccine mandates. The department said mandates…
The federal government has directed the United Network for Organ Sharing to pause some of its oversight work amid the government shutdown. As the primary contractor for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, UNOS manages the nation’s donation and transplant…
CDC and Florida Health Department researchers found seven risk factors that can lead to clinical Candida auris cases. The study, published Oct. 2 in Clinical Infectious Diseases, analyzed patients in Florida healthcare facilities that had C. auris infections after prior…
On Oct. 6, the CDC revised its immunization schedule guidance on vaccines for COVID-19 and measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox). Breaking with past guidance that recommended all individuals 6 months and older receive COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC now recommends…