The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $840 million in funding to improve emergency preparedness of state and local public health and healthcare systems.
The CMS has renewed deeming authority for The Joint Commission for hospital accreditation through July 2020.
When are hospitals required to implement interim Life Safety Code® measures?
A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center study found that anesthesia providers often fail to clean their hands during surgical procedures.
A New York Times report found that patient safety is severely lacking in U.S. military hospitals, with many patient deaths going unreported.
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Updated scores from The Leapfrog Group shows a 6.3% overall improvement in scores, and highlights Maine as one of the top states for patient care
Data integrity failures with health IT, poor care coordination, and reporting errors associated with test results top list
System administrators say quality reporting using third-party measures "will raise the bar for all of us"
