CMS published a final rule June 12 to increase oversight of the nine accrediting organizations that survey more than 9,000 healthcare organizations annually for compliance with federal health and safety requirements. CMS highlighted several areas of concern and potential conflicts…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Among nearly 98,000 older adults needing surgery, some were nearly twice as likely to undergo a delirium screening depending on the hospital where they received care, according to a study published June 10. Hospitals with the American College of Surgeons…
California’s workplace safety regulator has cited Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California San Francisco a combined $273,200 in proposed penalties following the fatal stabbing of a social worker at the hospital’s HIV clinic in December. The…
When CMS released its latest Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings in May, Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health’s flagship hospital earned five stars, placing it among the largest hospitals in the country to do so. The result was more than three…
Cedars-Sinai has received a $13 million donation from Eric and Terri Holoman to establish the Cedars-Sinai Holoman Health Equity Center and endow the Holoman Chair in Health Equity at the Los Angeles-based academic medical center. Christina Harris, MD, vice president…
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After rolling out a rapid sepsis diagnostic tool across its network, Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health achieved a 24% reduction in sepsis mortality over the last two years. FMOL Health, which operates 10 hospitals across Louisiana and Mississippi, said June…
About 1 in 6 patients with COVID-19 has developed long COVID and nearly 9 in 10 of those cases involve chronic conditions requiring ongoing clinical management, according to a study published May 27 in JAMA Network Open. A team led…
CMS told Becker’s it is aware of a reported patient death by suicide at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, which in January was placed in immediate jeopardy for the fourth time since 2019. On…
Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston are investigating a sharp rise in gestational diabetes among Chinese American populations that appears to outpace increases seen in other groups, The Atlantic reported May 27. George King, MD, the center’s research director,…
Since January 2025, between 1.5 million and 1.8 million children have been dropped from Medicaid programs even though HR 1 policies are months away from full implementation, according to researchers at Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University. The university’s Center for Children…