Patient Safety & Outcomes

An ambulance transporting a patient to Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center was hit by a stray bullet Aug. 25, ABC-6 News reports.

The number of opioid overdose patients admitted to the intensive care unit and the number of these patients that died due to overdoses increased significantly from 2009 through most of 2015, according to a study published in Annals of the…

A patient in police custody at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City was stabbed twice Friday by another patient while handcuffed to a gurney in the hospital's emergency department.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services stripped Columbia St. Mary's Hospital campuses in Mequon and Milwaukee — both part of St. Louis-based Ascension — of their trauma center designation, according to Greater Milwaukee Today.

A patient was found dead in a stairwell Wednesday night at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Oklahoma City, Okla., reports Oklahoma News 4.

A 70-year-old man smashed a window on the eighth floor of Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, Calif., Tuesday evening and jumped to his death, according to The Fresno Bee.

The Food and Drug Administration's Pediatric Advisory Committee will convene in September to evaluate the use of prescription cough medications containing opioids in the treatment of pediatric patients.

Express Scripts — the nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager — will begin limiting the potency and number of opioid painkillers prescribed to first-time users, according to a report from CBS News and the Associated Press.

A 66-year-old female patient died after her hospital gown caught fire July 25 at Williamsport (Pa.) Regional Medical Center, part of Williamsport-based UPMC Susquehanna, according to Lehigh Valley Live.

Florida Hospital East Orlando was placed on lockdown early Friday morning after an 85-year-old patient armed with a gun threatened to harm himself, according to CBS12.