Patient Safety & Outcomes

When Katherine Hochman, MD, director of the Division of Hospital Medicine at New York City-based NYU Grossman School of Medicine, launched a book club for employees in 2012, she wanted to test whether literature could deepen empathy and improve patient…

After omitting about 450 U.S. hospitals from its Spring 2026 safety grades, The Leapfrog Group rolled out “full transparency” badges for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers that submit all sections of Leapfrog’s surveys.  For more than a decade, Leapfrog has…

Twenty-five hospitals achieved SEP-1 scores of 95 or above in the 12-month period ending in June 2025, according to new CMS data. The agency’s Timely and Effective Care dataset updated May 13 assesses hospitals’ performance on dozens of quality measures,…

Boston Scientific issued a recall involving a correction on all 27 Accolade pacemakers and CRT-Ps, according to a May 7 FDA news release. The agency identified the recall as Class I. Here is what to know. 1. A battery issue…

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital performed more than 15,000 organ transplantations, a milestone reached by only a handful of healthcare centers in the nation. The hospital’s transplant program was launched in 1974 and has since grown to one of the highest-volume…

Health system leaders have built increasingly sophisticated infrastructure for tracking and improving patient safety outcomes. Yet, a visibility gap remains that data alone can’t close: the near misses, workarounds and bedside observations that never make it into the reporting pipeline…

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. detailed an action plan May 4 to curb “overprescribing” of psychiatric medications when clinically indicated, with a focus on evaluating prescription patterns, assessing benefits and harms, and increasing use of nonmedication treatments.  Six behavioral…

Safety data from hundreds of U.S. hospitals shows progress across several measures, and patient experience is improving, too, according to The Leapfrog Group.  On May 6, the patient safety organization published its biannual hospital ratings, which grade hospitals from “A”…

The rate of hospital-based shootings in the U.S. has grown steadily since 2012, with researchers warning that nearly a third of incidents could be prevented with weapons screening, according to a study published May 4 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers…

Each additional 1,000 steps per day a patient walks after surgery is linked to 18% lower odds of complications, 16% lower readmission rates and 6% shorter hospital stays, researchers found. The study, conducted by researchers at Columbus-based Ohio State University…