Quality and Safety
Catholic hospitals and health systems are on the rise in the United States, but patients' rights watchdog MergerWatch is claiming that trend will limit women's ability to obtain reproductive health services.
Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan is poised to become the latest proton therapy center in the United States having recently scored a Proteus One Gantry system that precisely directs cancer-killing proton beams at tumors.
The Food and Drug Administration has dropped a recall of some 2,800 scope-cleaning machines in use at hospitals and clinics nationwide despite a finding by a top agency scientist last year that the action was "necessary to protect public health."
While surgical screws or sponges can cost a hospital less than a penny each, when a surgeon accentially leaves one of these behind in a patient's body the mistake can cost both patientsa and healthcare providers dearly.
A new study of the prevalence carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in 16 Washington, D.C. hospitals claims the dangerous, drug-resistant superbug is very present in area hospitals and healthcare facilities.
These errors cause 250,000 deaths per year, falling behind cancer and the number one killer, heart disease, according to Johns Hopkins' researchers, Martin Makary and Michael Daniel in the report published Tuesday in the medical journal, The BMJ.
Nursing home that either merged or were acquired by major chains between 1993 and 2010 had more health deficiency citations than independent ones, according to a study published Monday in Health Affairs, though researchers said facilities that sold to chains were already struggling with quality issues.
While not every hospital may be as analytically-advanced, many of the lessons learned at UMMC can be applicable even to smaller hospitals looking to make the most of their data projects.
According to a new study, shortages of many drugs that are essential in emergency care have increased in both number and duration in recent years even as shortages for drugs for non-acute or chronic care have eased somewhat.
The study measures how many people were hospitalized between 2002 and 2012 because they were abusing heroin or prescription painkillers, and how many of them got serious infections related to their drug use. It also tracks what hospitals charged to treat those patients and how the hospitals were paid.