This article is part of our Nurses' Week Byline Series which will speak to the important theme of Nurse Safety.
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Math errors at 19-bed Nantucket (Mass.) Cottage Hospital — owned by Boston-based Partners HealthCare — and their implication for hospitals across the state most captured the attention of Becker's Hospital Review finance readers this week.
Medical bills have been piling up at U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. In 2014, one hospital employee familiar with the backlog estimated there were 20,000 bills that were never sent to U.S. patients or insurance companies, reports Stars and…
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. This nonprofit children’s hospital is now licensed for 315 beds, but it got its start in 1890 as a single cot in a local hospital dedicated to the care of children and infants. In its…
Recent natural and man-made disasters, such as Hurricane Sandy, the Sandyhook Elementary School shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing, served as powerful reminders that catastrophes can come in all shapes and sizes, and when least expected, to disrupt a community's…
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The following is a list of hospitals in Oklahoma for which 84 percent or more of patients reported on their HCAHPS surveys that their room and bathroom were "always" clean.
Just months after the Food and Drug Administration reiterated its November recall of Custom Ultrasonics' automated endoscope reprocessors, the federal agency dropped the recall, saying the product can remain on the market, according to Kaiser Health News.
The following health IT vendor contracts and go-lives were reported within the last week.
A computer's automatic antivirus scan inadvertently shut down a connected medical device being used in a heart catheterization procedure, but the procedure proceeded without causing patient harm, reports Softpedia.
For the first quarter of 2016, health IT company Allscripts reported $252 million in bookings, a record level for a year's first quarter for the company, and a 7 percent increase over last year's $236 million.