Angry at Houston-based Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital for refusing him emergency room services, David Williams, 33, walked into a next door building shortly after 1 a.m. on August 3 and started two fires. The blaze triggered Memorial Hermann's sprinkler system,…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
A patient attacked a female physician and attempted to slash her neck in York (Maine) Hospital's emergency room Sept. 6, according to York Dispatch News.
A patient being treated at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, S.C., was arrested after he assaulted 14 nurses and other hospital staff members, according to a WCSC report.
Two emergency room workers and a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter were stabbed by a patient at Los Angeles-based White Memorial Medical Center, according to ABC7.
The time spent in an emergency department makes no difference in a trauma patient's mortality, according to research from Saint Louis University.
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Two patients were shot by off-duty police officers Thursday in two separate incidents — one at Garfield, Ohio-based Marymount Hospital, which is a Cleveland Clinic facility, and another at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Houston.
Margaret E. O’Kane. President of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Ms. O’Kane is the founding and current president of the NCQA, which was created in 1990. She was elected a member of the Institute of…
Lucian Leape, MD. Dr. Leape helped bring healthcare safety issues to light when his article Error in Medicine was published in JAMA in 1994. From there, he was part of the Institute of Medicine’s Quality…
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH. Dr. Gawande is a prominent surgeon — practicing general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston — a public health researcher and prolific writer. His 2009 book, “The Checklist…
Gail Warden. President Emeritus of Henry Ford Health System (Detroit). Mr. Warden served as president and CEO of Henry Ford Health System from 1988 to 2003 and is currently the system’s president emeritus. His efforts there…