Patient Safety & Outcomes

The Patient Safety Movement Foundation, a non-profit based in Irvine, Calif., made up of patient safety experts and clinicians, announced five key focuses for 2024 as the organization works to create a "zero preventable harm" environment throughout the healthcare sector.

The most common elective surgical procedure for older adults was major joint surgery, according to a recent study.

In his Jan. 24 "State of the Clinic" address, Cleveland Clinic's president and CEO mentioned that the system confiscated 30,000 weapons from patients and visitors in 2023. 

Theodore Christopher, MD, the head of emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, has been disciplined after he reportedly left a first-year resident unattended so he could go to a different area of the hospital for a diagnostic…

Elon Musk's neurotechnology company, Neuralink, has implanted a chip into a human brain for the first time.

A vehicle crashed through the doors of the emergency department in the early hours of Jan. 29 at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in College Station, Texas, a spokesperson for the health system confirmed to Becker's.

Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital has performed 100 more transplants than any other pediatric hospital in the U.S. in the last decade. And 2023 was the seventh consecutive year the hospital has led in organ transplants.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia temporarily suspended nonessential clinical operations in response to a teen murder suspect that escaped police custody in the parking lot.

A Montgomery County, Ohio, inmate seized a sheriff deputy's firearm while receiving treatment at Kettering Health Dayton (Ohio) and fled the hospital on Jan. 26.

Sparrow Eaton Hospital, based in Charlotte, Mich., alerted its community Jan. 24 of unsafe levels of copper in its water supply.