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Patient Safety & Outcomes

The National Quality Forum is aiming to modernize and standardize serious adverse event reporting via a new patient safety effort.

Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University Hospital received an immediate jeopardy warning — and resolved it in a few hours — after a disoriented nursing home resident walked out of the emergency department unnoticed, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported April 9.

A fire in an intensive care unit room at Tulsa, Okla.-based Hillcrest Medical Center resulted in one patient being injured and six being moved to another unit.

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Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham will stop reporting suspected abuse or neglect to child welfare officials solely because a baby is born exposed to drugs, The Boston Globe reported April 2. 

Maintaining infection prevention and control during disinfection and sterilization activities was the most challenging compliance standard for hospitals in 2023, according to The Joint Commission.

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