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The National Advisory Committee for the Hospital Incident Command System encourages hospitals and health systems to complete by Nov. 30 a survey on the system’s emergency management performance during the past few years to identify potential improvements.
The Department of Health and Human Services last week announced it was awarding $13 million to strengthen nursing education.
A shooter last week killed two employees at Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Texas. The police arrested and took the suspect to another hospital for treatment after a confrontation.
To help hospitals and health systems protect their employees and patients, AONL and the Emergency Nurses Association recently updated their Guiding Principles on Mitigating Workplace Violence.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and its Physician Alliance this week released a guide to aid hospital and health system leaders in prioritizing and supporting a robust succession planning program for their organization.
Patients enrolled in a sepsis transition program using nurse navigators to deliver best-practice care during and after hospitalization were less likely to be re-hospitalized or die, a study found.
In an American Hospital Association (AHA) podcast, two clinicians from Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, explain how their organization made significant quality improvements.
Implementation of rapid response teams were not associated with a reduction in hospital deaths, according to a study with a large and diverse sample of U.S. hospitals.
Hospital room features, such as distance from a nursing station, staying in a single room and having a direct line of sight to clinicians could influence a patient’s clinical outcomes after surgery, according to a study.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week approved a demonstration program for five years allowing Arizona to test approaches to help eligible Medicaid enrollees maintain stable housing.