Patients continue to be stitched closed with surgical sponges, gloves, needles, electrodes, scalpels, wires, tweezers, forceps, scopes, masks, tubes, and scissors left inside them. To combat the prob...

Almost two-thirds of the hospitals surveyed in 2017 were found noncompliant in at least one—and possibly many more—of the top 10 most challenging standards for hospitals....

The good news is that patient falls are largely preventable. Doing so can save patients undue pain and save a hospital around $1 million a year. The bad news: There are still between 700,000 and 1 mil...

With the renewed focus on ligature and self-harm, facilities need to undergo a complete reassessment of the physical environment where patients with behavioral or mental health problems are cared for...

The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program—also commonly known as HFAP—will be keeping its name. The longtime accrediting organization had originally planned to take the name of the ...

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There’s a case where a World War II POW committed suicide by hitting himself in the head with an empty metal canteen after days without water. While that happened in the hold of a Japanese priso...

With the end of the opioid/painkiller crisis nowhere in sight, it’s up to providers and facilities to lead the charge. More than three dozen bills addressing various concerns about the opioid ...

Sepsis mortality rates increase quickly when left untreated, even if it’s only for a few hours. The difficulty facing providers is that there isn’t a simple test for sepsis. Instead, they ...