Patient Safety & Outcomes

Leaders at Washington, D.C.-based United Medical Center allegedly planned to close the hospital's obstetrics ward before district regulators ordered a 90-day shutdown of the ward over safety issues, according to confidential documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Two security guards fatally shot a patient who pushed his way out of a treatment room and refused to drop two knives at St. Louis-based Barnes-Jewish Hospital on Thursday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Mercy Fort Smith (Ark.) launched a seasonal flu clinic Wednesday to help ease the burden of nonemergency flu patients in the hospital's emergency room, according to the Southwest Times Record.

The emergency room at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, Calif., had several days where patient occupancy exceeded 100 percent this week after seeing a spike in patients with flu symptoms and respiratory problems, according to a KMPH report.

A man was shot on public property near the entrance of Washington D.C.-based George Washington University Hospital Tuesday night, reports Fox 5.

Edinburg, Texas-based South Texas Health System will open a freestanding emergency room in Edinburg Jan. 16, according to The Monitor.

Bedford (Va.) Memorial Hospital is set to complete an expansion that will increase the size of its emergency department by over 30 percent, according to The News & Advance. 

Police say a patient at Cleveland-based MetroHealth attacked and groped an emergency room nurse who was treating him, according to The Plain Dealer.

Minneapolis-based Hennepin County Medical Center — a  Level I Trauma Center across the street from the U.S. Bank Stadium, where Super Bowl LII will be held Feb. 4 — is developing an emergency plan to ensure access to the hospital…

Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, Calif., stopped accepting ambulances Thursday afternoon for non-trauma patients after seeing a spike in flu cases, according to a KCBS report.