A division of HCA Healthcare has reached settlements with nine families over lawsuits alleging a former NICU nurse injured several infants. The cases centered around HCA’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Va., which temporarily paused NICU admissions in late 2024…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Lucian Leape, MD, former chief of pediatric surgery at Burlington, Mass.-based Tufts Medicine and a pioneer in the field of patient safety, has died. He was 94. Dr. Leape co-authored a 1999 “landmark” report that linked deaths from medical errors…
What is a dyad and how do I fit into it? What do I do? These are the questions every new healthcare leader asks themselves, as I did, when they first join a dyad partnership. Although there has been much…
A CMS measure aims to limit older adults’ emergency department stays to eight hours, but in 2024, 20% of ED encounters among adults 65 and older exceeded this limit, according to research published June 30. CMS implemented an Age-Friendly Hospital…
California became the 13th state to introduce a bill aimed at improving menopause care and education, NPR reported July 1. In 2023, a need assessment published in the journal Menopause found that under a third of residency programs in OB-GYN…
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New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, a, 46-hospital system, accomplished a 20% decrease in sepsis risk-adjusted mortality over two years with novel initiatives, a health system leader said on an American Hospital Association podcast. Ochsner has been conducting sepsis reviews, modeled after…
ECRI, a national patient safety nonprofit, recently named Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health the winner of its 2025 Health Technology Excellence Award. In the last five years, Prisma has quickly expanded to become South Carolina’s largest health system, according to an…
A North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services investigation found no care deficiencies at HCA Healthcare’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. The investigation was conducted May 13-16 to evaluate the hospital’s compliance with Medicare conditions of participation, according to…
Over the past few weeks, The Joint Commission has unveiled new efforts to support healthcare organizations with safe and effective use of artificial intelligence, changed lab survey procedures and announced job cuts. Below are five key actions and updates from…
MyMichigan Medical Center Midland is working to filter its water systems after detecting low levels of Legionella bacteria. In May, the hospital learned that a former patient tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease, prompting initial testing, which showed low levels of…