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Nearly 9% of hospitals have no patient safety systems plan, according to recent research suggesting that risk managers need to reevaluate how they are striving to meet the Institute of Medicine safety goals.
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In 1984, a woman received dental implants to replace her temporomandibular joints, connecting the jaw to the skull.
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Insurance records suggest that wrong-site surgery is extremely rare and major injury from it even rarer, according to a study supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has issued a special warning to double-check how tubes and catheters are connected to patients...
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Getting your staff ready for an unannounced survey by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is different from the old way of preparing tons of charts and notebooks for a formal presentation...
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Plaintiffs' attorneys soon may use the discharge of homeless patients to push the boundaries of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)...
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A Los Angeles hospital is under fire for what critics call "patient dumping" after local media aired footage of a homeless woman who had been treated ...
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A patient undergoing back surgery experienced a cardiac arrest after losing excessive amounts of blood during the procedure. Although he was resuscitated, the man suffered severe and permanent brain damage.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) reports that fake surveyors still are trying to gain access to health care facilities and urges risk managers to stay on alert.
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When you hear that today is the day you'll be surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), it's too late to make any major improvements.