Ensuring Safety Through Equipment Integrity in Patient Care Environments
Patient safety remains a top priority in healthcare settings, and the integrity of medical equipment plays a critical role in achieving this goal. Equipment that functions reliably under all conditions is essential for creating safe environments where patients receive care without risk of harm from device failure or malfunction.
CNOs, Here’s How to Prepare for ICE Agents in Hospitals
Currently, health systems are required to allow ICE agents into general areas that are open to the public, such as lobbies, waiting areas, and other public areas. ICE agents can be barred from entering clearly distinguished and enforced private areas, such as treatment rooms, inpatient units, offices, and any space closed to the public.
Is Your Organization Prepared for TEAM?
This mandatory model is intended to advance the CMS Innovation Center’s prior work on episode-based alternative payment models and will run for five years, ending in December 2030.
Latest Leapfrog Safety Grades Highlight Top Performing Hospitals
Hospitals are improving their performance in terms of preventing patient harm, according to the Spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grade released last week by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit focused on patient safety.
National Nurses Week 2025 Resources from PSQH
As National Nurses Week wraps up, we want to salute the valuable and courageous work done by nurses at all levels of care. We highlighted the efforts of nurses this week and will continue to do so. Thanks to our partner, Drexel University, this week for their support.
PSQH Quick Poll 2025: Taking the Pulse of Nursing’s Impact on Patient Safety
As part of National Nurses Week, PSQH reached out to our readers with a few questions about how nursing impacts patient safety and healthcare quality. The Quick Poll had a total of 102 respondents. The PSQH Quick Poll is presented in partnership with Drexel University.
UnityPoint Health CMO Says Simplicity Drives High Quality Care
Johnson says the two dozen quality measures that UnityPoint is focusing on are similar to the top quality metrics at other health systems. These include length of stay, mortality, hospital-acquired infections, and hospital-acquired conditions.
Reflections on a Healthcare Data Breach: Where Are We Now?
One year ago, the Change Healthcare cyberattack caused a disruption of healthcare operations on a massive scale, resulting in outages, payment delays, and cancellation of patient appointments. The attack highlighted the need for healthcare organizations to strengthen their cyber preparedness and security posture and demonstrated the devastating impact an attack can have on care delivery.
The Exec: UF Health’s New Chief Clinical Officer Wants to Turn Up the Volume on Clinical Outcomes
Phipps has several aspirations for UF Health, including taking the existing structure and high-performing clinicians as well as leaders and creating a more integrated approach so that everyone is working more collaboratively across the UF Health geography.
An Unsettled Healthcare Environment Puts Focus on Enterprise Risk Management
Even during “normal” times, predicting the future is a dicey business. The breakneck pace of actions taken in the first weeks of the Trump presidency only makes every glass ball more opaque and puts the onus on healthcare leaders to sharpen their enterprise risk management practices for the challenges ahead.