Patient Safety & Outcomes

Starting Nov. 1, Texas hospitals will have to ask patients about their citizenship status, The Texas Tribune reported Oct. 17. 

Since elevating safety to its No. 1 priority, Springfield (Ill.) Memorial Hospital has launched several projects to protect its staff and patients. 

The American Hospital Association released its last Hospitals Against Violence Advisory Group guidelines. The guidelines focus on community-based violence interventions.

A team at Cincinnati Children's hospital performed a lung-then-heart transplant on a 15-year-old patient with Castleman disease. The organs were transported and transplanted separately. 

A study found children were 50% more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes six months after having a COVID-19 infection, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 14.

The American Physiological Society and online library Wiley will relaunch the journal Comprehensive Physiology with a new focus on interorgan communication.

A new postpartum, at-home blood pressure monitoring program at M Health Fairview reduced postpartum readmissions due to hypertension by 69%.

Three nurses at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center were seriously injured Oct. 11 after being struck by the driver of a vehicle who dropped off a gunshot victim outside the hospital's emergency department. 

Over 14 years, there was a 76% increase in emergency department visits related to hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, an Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan study found. 

A physician at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital successfully performed the first ovarian transplant procedure in New England, for a patient whose ovary was removed and preserved 18 years earlier.