Patient Safety

Upcoming HCPro webcast will describe how to build patient safety and quality programs that measure and improve clinical and financial outcomes.Read More »

A Glendale, California hospital has agreed to pay $700,000 in civil penalties to settle a lawsuit accusing the facility of dumping a homeless...Read More »

MRSA and CLABSI updates are coupled with a new commentary on horizontal and vertical infection prevention approaches.Read More »

A new report details some of the steps that California hospitals are taking to prevent the most common medical errors and adverse events, but...Read More »

It's been six years since a group of infection prevention organizations, hospital associations, and regulators assembled to release the ...Read More »

Data released in May by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows improvements in patient safety have saved thousands of...Read More »

Fifteen years after a major Institute of Medicine report, hospitals have made no progress on patient safety, experts told a Senate panel last week...Read More »

A New York Times report found that patient safety is severely lacking in U.S. military hospitals, with many patient deaths going...Read More »

Data integrity failures with health IT, poor care coordination, and reporting errors associated with test results top list...Read More »

System administrators say quality reporting using third-party measures "will raise the bar for all of us"Read More »