Is Unprofessional Conduct Poisoning Your Care Teams and Clinician-Patient Relationships?
Between high rates of burnout and intensifying workplace violence incidents, having clear, professional communication between physicians and patients is more important than ever.
Boosting Clinician Engagement Is Essential for Improving Operational Performance. Here’s Why.
According to a literature review published by BMC Health Services Research, physician engagement was found to boost operational performance in four areas: quality and safety, patient outcomes and experience, efficiency and costs, and staff satisfaction.
Increasing Perspective on ED Boarding and Patient Care
While retrospective reporting is useful, real-time, operational intelligence can help health systems get ahead of bottlenecks, anticipate discharge barriers, coordinate downstream capacity, and proactively reduce ED boarding.
PSQH Quick Poll 2026: Taking the Pulse of Patient Safety
As part of PSQH’s celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, we decided to reach out to our readers with a few questions to find out the state of patient safety efforts in 2025. The survey had a total of 127 respondents.
PAs Want to Be Called Physician Associates. Physicians Are Resisting.
The American Academy of Physician Associates is determined to see the title of physician assistants changed to physician associates across the country.
Strikes Drag Down Job Growth, Forcing Hospital CEOs to Confront Workforce Tensions
For hospital CEOs, these strikes reveal deeper workforce tensions that can affect retention, recruitment, and organizational culture even after a contract dispute ends.
Patient Safety Isn’t Seasonal: Five Tips Every Health System Should Follow
After more than a decade working in patient safety across large health systems and virtual care platforms, I’ve seen firsthand what strengthens safety—and what quietly undermines it.
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Registry Predicts Risks for Cardiovascular Patients
Information collected in the database includes patient demographic data such as age and weight, patient circumstances such as whether a patient is on a ventilator, and types of patient procedures such as diagnostic heart catheterization. The data is then used to create a point system that produces a risk score for patients undergoing certain types of procedures in a cath lab.
Maternal Safety Strategy: Why More Hospitals Are Turning to the OB Hospitalist Model
New data from OB Hospitalist Group suggests that hospitals using a dedicated OB hospitalist model may see measurable improvements in maternal and infant outcomes, including reductions in severe maternal morbidity, preterm births, and C-section rates.
The Exec: How to Promote High Reliability in the Hospital Setting
Establishing high reliability at a hospital requires leadership discipline and cultural commitment, according to the new CMO of Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California.