Weeks after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the CDC would stop recommending healthy children and pregnant women receive routine COVID-19 vaccinations, national healthcare groups filed a lawsuit July 7 seeking to reverse the order. Here are 10 key…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
U.S. officials have confirmed 1,267 measles cases across 27 outbreaks as of July 1 — a sharp increase from the 285 confirmed cases in 2024, according to CDC data. Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University is also tracking the measles spread and…
Between July 7, 2023, and June 30, 2024, Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson had the lowest rate of Clostridioides difficile infections among cancer hospitals exempt from reporting to Medicare’s Inpatient Prospective Payment System. Eleven PPS-exempt cancer hospitals are required…
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…
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…
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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…
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…