In 2024, nurses filed hundreds of safety concerns about two Massachusetts hospitals operated by Dallas-based Tenet Health. Most recently, a union representing these nurses alleged that understaffing caused two preventable patient deaths.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
An HCA Healthcare hospital in Richmond, Va., is temporarily suspending admissions to its neonatal intensive care unit after discovering three infants with what the hospital called "unexplainable fractures" in late November and December.
A New York system is rescheduling Dec. 26 in-person appointments at its health and wellness plaza because of a water main break.
A team at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center set an institutional record by transplanting 10 kidneys in two days using a 20-person chain.
I spent more than twenty years as a Corporate Director of Infection Prevention for an Integrated Health Care Delivery Network (IDN). During that time, I learned a great deal about managing infection prevention and about corporate leadership culture and priorities.…
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In states with total abortion bans, federal law requires physicians to provide an abortion if it stabilizes an emergency condition, but hospitals are leaving physicians to fend for themselves to navigate this "minefield," according to a Senate Finance Committee report.
In an interactive session at Becker's 12th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, two leaders from Illumina — Mike Kreitzinger, lead of health system strategy, and Damon Hostin, lead of market access for health systems — facilitated a discussion with Tom…
2024 marked a big year for the field of xenotransplantation, with surgical teams at several health systems completing historic procedures that could pave the way for broader adoption of animal-to-human organ transplants.
Eight systems and organizations have partnered on research to cure total blindness through whole-eye transplantation.
The overprescription and overuse of antibiotics have exacerbated antimicrobial resistance (AMR) globally. This poses a significant threat to modern medicine, as common infectious diseases are becoming increasingly difficult to treat.