A new study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology found that superbugs grew at an alarming rate in hospitals and healthcare facilities in the southeastern United States from 2008 to...

Every organization struggles with falls prevention, and finding new, effective, and sustainable ways to prevent falls is one of the great challenges for both inpatient and outpatient care. One organ...

The Rhode Island Department of Health has ordered Rhode Island Hospital to make corrections after it was found to violate its own infection control policies. ...

Every survey is a little bit different, but during Maine Medical Partners' most recent survey visit by The Joint Commission, it saw something no one had ever encountered before: The surveyors locked t...

The fiscal year 2015 IPPS final rule devotes a substantial amount of its updates to hospital quality improvement efforts....

The Joint Commission has turned its attention?or rather, turned its attention back to?the ever-evolving world of healthcare information technology in its latest Sentinel Event Alert (SEA #54), relea...

As hospitals prepare for more rigorous Joint Commission standard, Mayo Clinic shows how regimented approach can reduce rates by as much as 70%...

Currently, 60% of U.S. hospitals don't have an antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) that meets all seven components of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stewardship guidelines. But ...

In May, the University of North Texas (UNT) Health and Science Center announced a new collaborative aimed at improving patient care throughout the state and reducing medical errors across the contin...

Between 1997 and 2011, the number of deaths in emergency departments (ED) has been cut nearly in half, down from 1.48 deaths per thousand to 0.77 per thousand....