Patient Safety & Outcomes

Eighteen years ago, a woman posing as a nurse kidnapped a newborn girl from a Florida hospital.

A 72-year-old patient shot himself inside Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, N.J., Wednesday morning.

On Jan. 6, a stream of ambulances delivered 54 patients to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a gunman opened fire at a luggage carousel at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Though both ACO and non-ACO hospitals have been successful in driving down rates of readmissions from skilled nursing facilities, hospitals participating in Medicare ACOs have done so measurably faster, according to a study published in the January issue of Health…

Salem (Ore.) Health's CNO said the hospital saw a 20 percent surge in emergency department and hospital visits last week attributed in part to an increase in influenza cases, reports Statesman Journal.

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health Medical Center received six trauma patients injured in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Jan. 6.

Reports of smoke inside John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas, prompted a hospitalwide evacuation Wednesday.

Psychiatric patients in Massachusetts have lengthy emergency department visits, particularly those requiring inpatient admission, according to a study published online Wednesday in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

The following 47 hospitals are where patients spend the shortest average time in the emergency department before being leaving from the visit.

Value-based Care is here and has created new challenges for healthcare organizations. This required change has set the healthcare industry on its ear, yet few organizations have taken the first steps needed to ensure smooth transitions with what they will…