Patient Safety & Outcomes

St. David's South Austin (Texas) Medical Center cancelled and rescheduled all nonemergency surgeries May 3 due to a power outage, reports the American-Statesman.

A chartered bus carrying students and chaperones from a North Carolina high school band and chorus team crashed April 29, sending 17 people to Walterboro, S.C.-based Colleton Medical Center for treatment, reports WCIV.

A patient attempted to grab an officer's gun at Lynn, Mass.-based North Shore Medical Center Union Hospital April 28, prompting the hospital to issue an armed intruder alert, reports CBS Boston.

A man allegedly kidnapped a patient from the emergency room at Lehigh Acres, Fla.-based Lehigh Regional Medical Center April 28, according to Wink News.

An explosion rocked an oil refinery in Superior, Wis., April 26, sending 11 people to two local hospitals and forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents as a plume of noxious smoke blew into the air, reports the Milwaukee Journal…

A Maryland man is accused of making threats of violence against Hagerstown, Md.-based Meritus Medical Center, according to The Journal.

Aaron Eagan, deputy director for innovation at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, shared early data from an analytics-driven mental health program April 19 at the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council's Health Innovation Day in Washington, D.C.,…

Inpatient joint replacement procedures can place a significant financial strain on health systems, so much so that Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is in the process of piloting a mandatory payment program to cut costs.

Three executives from Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger detailed how DNA sequencing helps the health system prevent diseases among its patient population in a recent article for Harvard Business Review.

A study published in Spine examined the effects of preoperative opioid use on spinal deformity surgery outcomes.