Safety champions at Henry Ford Health System have helped transform the way staff members prevent patient harm...

A Cincinnati hospital formed a task force and substantially reduced the number of false alarms from medical devices....

U.S. hospitals are making headway in preventing adverse events, with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimating that 1.3 million fewer patients were harmed from 2010 to 2013....

A new Johns Hopkins study raises additional questions about the correlation ­between what patients think they know about their medical condition versus their true understanding...

Hospitals in California reported more than 6,200 adverse events in the last four fiscal years....

The Joint Commission recognized more than 1,200 hospitals in its Top Performers on Key Quality Measures program, an 11% increase from the previous year....

A study found that using a team-based approach can help hospitals reduce alarm fatigue....

Implementing a handoff improvement program has been found to reduce medical errors in nine hospitals, according to a new study....

Health technology is intended to simplify processes, improve efficiency, and?most importantly?improve care. But more studies are showing that without an effective implementation plan, these systems ...

When the Partnership for Patients (PfP) program was announced in April 2011, it was billed by CMS Administrator Don Berwick as "the largest national effort on patient safety that we've ever see...