Patient Safety & Outcomes

The abrupt July closure of Renton, Wash.-based Seattle Pain Centers — an 8,000-patient pain management chain spanning eight locations — has pushed more than 1,500 patients into Washington emergency rooms, according to The Seattle Times.

Emergency departments have reported a dramatic increase in the amount of children with soccer-related head injuries, according to a study published Tuesday in Pediatrics.

A lockdown at Tucson (Ariz.) Medical Center has been lifted following a shooting in an adjacent parking area, reports 3TV.

Southern Arizona's sole Level I trauma center was in trouble July 14 when smoke started coming from an electrical panel in the basement, according to Tucson.com.

Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital was forced to postpone surgical procedures and send emergency cases elsewhere following an air conditioning malfunction, according to a LancasterOnline report.

Two emergency medical technicians employed by University Hospital in Newark, N.J., live-streamed a fast food run to White Castle, which showed them ignore an emergency call while waiting for their food, according to a News 12 report. The incident occurred…

A woman in New Jersey has been charged after allegedly throwing an IV bag at and punching a physician at Christ Hospital in Jersey City, N.J., according to a report from The Jersey Journal.

An Iowa woman now faces a charge of child endangerment after she gave birth in a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics bathroom, attempted to flush her newborn down the toilet and later abandoned it alive in a trashcan, according…

Police are investigating the death of a Winter Haven (Fla.) Hospital patient who died Saturday after jumping from a window on the hospital's third floor, according to The Ledger.

A 2-year-old girl was struck and killed by an ambulance outside of Boston-based Tufts Medical Center just after 1 p.m. Saturday, according to The Boston Globe.