How good a hospital is St. Mary Mercy Livonia Hospital? Depends on whom you ask. The Leapfrog Group, a respected nonprofit that promotes patient safety, gave an “A” to this Michigan hospital ...

The following is an excerpt from “Hand-off communication: The weak link in healthcare,” which was written by Rhonda Collins and published in Becker’s Hospital Review on December 7, 2017: ...

Rito, who worked for 14 years as a cook, said he paid $45 for his son to take a CPR class at the hospital more than a year ago. Carlos Gallegos moved patients and was an employee required to have CPR ...

The Leapfrog Group, which tracks hospital safety and grades hospitals from A to F, has issued its spring report cards. Leapfrog grades most of the hospitals in the United States — about 3,000 ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – More than $1 million has been committed to the Behavioral Safety Net portal, which is entering its final stage of development. The Board of County Commissioners approved ...

The following is an excerpt from “Hand-off communication: The weak link in healthcare,” which was written by Rhonda Collins and published in Becker’s Hospital Review on December 7, 2017: ...

While pagers are still ubiquitous in hospital settings as a means of physician to physician communication, group messaging smartphone applications are proving to improve team communication, found ...

Two recent Penn graduates are helping physicians quickly communicate with colleagues. Seratis, a mobile app soon to begin a new pilot site in the psychiatric ward of Penn Medicine, was created to ...

An Army investigation found “multiple communication failures” regarding warning signs in the months leading up to reservist Robert Card committing the worst mass shooting in Maine’s history ...

TQL is teaming up with Children's Hospital to sponsor a holiday greeting card campaign. Through Dec. 6, people can go online and pick one of six holiday greeting cards.

Respondents indicated smartphones (57 percent) are reliable communication channels for sharing clinical information, followed by overhead announcements (40 percent) and Wi-Fi phones (38 percent). 6.

Poor communication is one of the most common causes of negative hospital experiences, Penn Medicine researchers found in a recent study. The study, published in the Journal of General Internal ...