If you had to describe a hospital’s mission, philosophy and guiding light with a single word, safety would sit at the top of ...

New data show that hospitals’ and health systems’ relentless focus on safety and quality improvement is paying off for ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine, the society representing more than 31,000 hospitalists and the hospital medicine specialty, has implemented several successful patient safety initiatives that have ...

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System launched its “No Harm Campaign” in 2008, a system-wide approach to patient safety that has a goal of reducing adverse events by 50 percent by 2013. HFHS is ...

Posey says the stability in workers' compensation loss rates is linked to the decrease in claims frequency, which has experienced a steady decline over the past decade. In addition to patient safety ...

To construct a truly outstanding patient-safety and quality control program, hospitals must first have a strong quality foundation. Many hospitals attempt to launch sophisticated initiatives and find ...

BENTON, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HD Nursing, the leading patient safety solution that combines predictive analytics with individualized fall and pressure injury prevention, announces its collaborative ...

In early 2021, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and NORC at the University of Chicago showed that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic ...

Patient safety sets the foundation for a safe, equitable, trustworthy care experience – regardless of whether you’re operating in a virtual health system, or a physical one. And yet, despite increased ...

The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit that focuses on improvements in hospital patient safety, has released its fall 2025 ...

The patient safety movement has made the healthcare workplace safer for employees too, a risk analysis suggests. "We think the intense emphasis on patient safety has a direct implication on worker ...