Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System launched its “No Harm Campaign” in 2008, a system-wide approach to patient safety that has a goal of reducing adverse events by 50 percent by 2013. HFHS is ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine, the society representing more than 31,000 hospitalists and the hospital medicine specialty, has implemented several successful patient safety initiatives that have ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – Brooke Army Medical Center received an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade ...

BENTON, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HD Nursing, the leading patient safety solution that combines predictive analytics with individualized fall and pressure injury prevention, announces its collaborative ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services do not reimburse fall-related costs, so falls represent a significant cost burden for hospitals. In a new study at two health systems, the average total ...

The Biden administration met World Patient Safety Day with a blitz of new programs, panel discussions and commitments from government agencies as well as healthcare industry organizations all focused ...

Patient safety sets the foundation for a safe, equitable, trustworthy care experience – regardless of whether you’re operating in a virtual health system, or a physical one. And yet, despite increased ...

Patient safety sets the foundation for a safe, equitable, trustworthy care experience — regardless of whether you’re operating in a virtual health system or a physical one. And yet, despite increased ...

Aurora Dialysis, located in Grand Forks, ND was recently awarded the 5-Diamond Patient Safety Program award and will receive special recognition at Network 11's Annual Meeting, October 2012, in ...

This is why many acute care hospitals use patient sitters, who provide one-on-one care for agitated and disoriented patients. In September 2022, UAB Medicine began a Virtual Sitter Program to provide ...

Thirteen of Baptist Health’s ASCs have earned recognition from The Leapfrog Group, a designation that signals strong performance on patient safety and quality measures at a time when ASCs are caring ...