hospitals

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- If hospitals and clinics can't get 90% of their employees to get an annual flu shot, they should "strongly consider" making the vaccine mandatory, a federal vaccines panel has voted.

(MedPage Today) -- Nearly 4,600 children were admitted to a U.S. hospital in 2006 as a result of physical abuse and 300 died because of the abuse, researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- At hospitals enrolled in the "Get With the Guidelines" program, quality of care for Asian Americans with an acute MI improved significantly over a five-year period.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Most hospital errors that result in harm to Medicare patients go unreported, and even when they are, hospitals rarely change the way they operate in order to prevent similar errors in the future, according to a new report from federal investigators.

A union representing thousands of New York City nurses is threatening to send them out on strike at one of the nation’s busiest hospitals, even as it reached a deal for a new contract at another big medical center across town.

(MedPage Today) -- Infection control practices to prevent various hospital-acquired infections are being more frequently used, both at nonfederal and VA hospitals, researchers found.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- New mothers in Rhode Island will no longer leave the hospital with a free goody bag of infant formula....

(MedPage Today) -- Facilities that win the "Magnet Hospital" designation for meeting high nursing standards were more likely to adopt safe practices than their noncertified counterparts, researchers found.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A severe shortage of drugs for chemotherapy, infections and other serious ailments is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can't get them any other way....

Share: