For the first time, providers, payers, and patients now have an enormous searchable database containing documents detailing about 8,000 serious federal safety rule violations—many of which hav...

Q: What is the basic model for conducting a risk assessment? ...

Those of you who’ve followed this space for a while know that my first “life” in healthcare was working in various positions in what we now call Environmental Services (used to be ...

This is the second installment of a three-part series where the authors introduce the idea of workforce analytics and its impacts to hospital organizations. ...

On September 18, the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA)-the union that began the "Just Ask" campaign, urging each patient to ask his or her nurses how many people they are caring for tha...

Scientists in Europe have discovered a new colistin-resistant gene, mcr-2, in the intestines of Belgian pigs. Colistin is a last-resort antibiotic that is only used when an infection proves resistant ...

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) issued a report last week that found that medical errors cause 325,000 deaths per year. ...

Safety issues continue to top The Joint Commission’s annual list of top standards compliance issues, with seven of the top 10 coming from the Life Safety and Environment of Care chapters. ...

A Glendale, California hospital has agreed to pay $700,000 in civil penalties to settle a lawsuit accusing the facility of dumping a homeless patient on skid row in June....

The e-SOC is comprised of two basic sections. Name them....