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News: A man was working with chemicals at his job when a chemical cleaning solution splashed into his eye. He presented to a nearby emergency department, where doctors irrigated his eye to remove the chemical.
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News: A woman admitted to the hospital put her hand on a metal railing by her bed in her hospital room. The part of the metal rail that the woman grabbed had a towel draped over it, and a used hypodermic needle was in the towel.
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Two hospitals in Boston are taking the lead in patient safety by pledging to eliminate all preventable patient harm within four years, a goal that some patient safety experts applaud, but which others say is not a realistic goal.
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The criminal charge filed against a patient who was forced to undergo a rectal exam may have been one factor that led to a civil lawsuit against the hospital, say legal observers.
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The Joint Commission's sentinel event database includes five cases that resulted in four deaths and affected four adults and one child, according to Mark R. Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH, president of The Joint Commission.
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Major findings of a recent report by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured include the following:
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The nation's community health centers (CHCs) provide primary health care services to more than 15 million people, many of whom are members of racial or ethnic minorities, have low income, are uninsured, or have coverage through Medicaid.
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States working to expand health coverage for low-income, uninsured individuals - especially children - are running into a proverbial perfect storm of federal barriers.
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Hypertension affects more than 50 million people in the United States and has long been recognized as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and renal disease.
