A critical incident team at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, Ore., will be interviewing a private practice physician and hospital employees that were involved in a wrong-site surgery performed on a four-year-old boy, according to a local ABC news…
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Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has announced the availability of a new Amerinet Quality Solutions toolkit, podcast episode and webcast highlighting healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has partnered with the American Hospital Association and Health Research & Educational Trust to launch the 2011 Medication Safety Self Assessment for Hospitals, an online assessment designed to track medication safety progress, according to…
Children's Hospital in Denver will be implementing a bar-code system this fall to help improve medication safety among its patients, according to a Denver Post news report.
The Joint Commission and Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System co-authored a guide for healthcare organizations to implement and enforce a smoke-free or tobacco-free policy, according to a Joint Commission news release.
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Memorial Mission Surgery Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), according to a report from Chattanoogan.com.
A new study by HR Solutions found that 70 percent of healthcare workers felt they could report a serious medical error their co-workers committed without fear of reprisal, according to an HR Solutions news release.
Sandy Berreth, RN, MS, CASC, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn., and a AAAHC surveyor, shares the following thoughts on three critical areas of focus for safe drug management in an ASC.
Researchers say the medical field is in need of formal recommendations regarding surgeons' alcohol consumption the day before performing surgery, according to research published in the Archives of Surgery.
Patients undergoing surgery with do-not-resuscitate orders are more likely to experience postoperative complications or mortality, signaling DNR orders as an independent risk factor for poor surgical outcomes, according to research published in the Archives of Surgery.