Cleveland Clinic names Dr. Toby Cosgrove’s successor | Utah hospital limits police access to patient rooms after aggressive nurse confrontation | Calif. hospital fined $40k after physician left patient mid-hysterectomy | Why this patient played a saxophone solo during his…
Infection Control
[Nurse leadership] 20 hospitals hiring nurses | Surgical resident sues St. Louis University, alleges discrimination over nursing background | 12 CEO moves | Antimicrobial nursing scrubs not effective, study finds From: Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality <editorial@beckershealthcare.com> Subject: [Nurse…
Health myth fuels demand for tetanus shots after Harvey | Cleveland Clinic’s operating income more than triples | Salmonella, syphilis, hep A: 6 recent and ongoing outbreaks | Physician canoes through Houston floodwater to perform surgery From: Becker's Infection Control…
Floodwater injuries, mold & more: 7 health ramifications from Hurricane Harvey | Antibiotic prescription fill rates by region: 6 notes | Advisory Board sells healthcare arm to Optum in $1.3B deal | NQF looks to boost patient voice in quality…
Flooding closes MD Anderson, Memorial Hermann Sugar Land; Ben Taub evacuates | 2 patients contract Legionnaires’ at UW Medical Center | The most effective hand-washing technique for C. diff | Mass. closes psych hospital weeks after declaring it safe for…
60+ hospital and health system CNOs to know | Mass. hospital worker wins $758.7M Powerball jackpot | Northwell Health to shut down insurance arm | Hershey Medical Center cited for 2nd patient safety event From: Becker's Infection Control & Clinical…
[Nurse leadership] 20 hospitals hiring nurses | Patient jumps to death from Calif. hospital window | Every extra patient on nurse’s caseload increases mortality risk 7% | Hershey Medical Center cited by state in death of 6-year-old patient From: Becker's…
Intermountain to cut opioid prescriptions 40% by 2018 | Presence Health to join Ascension | ‘Game of Stools’ board game helps providers better manage C diff | Hospital admissions waxed, waned depending on proximity to eclipse path From: Becker's Infection…
Rush files suit over $18M patient monitoring system | 16 CNO, CMO moves | CHS investor wants to oust CEO Wayne Smith | Keck Medicine of USC names 1st chief patient safety officer From: Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality…
Nurse sues Houston hospital over lunch break policy | What’s the status of Trump’s proposed vaccine panel? | 2 Tenet board members resign over ‘irreconcilable differences’ | 7 hospital execs: Why I chose healthcare From: Becker's Infection Control & Clinical…
