As we saw in last week’s essay, preventable errors are unnecessary, avoidable threats to obtaining beneficial therapy.Correcting them is prohibitive in terms of financial, emotional and physical ...

Healthcare leaders across the country are grappling with an urgent and undeniable reality: the workforce crisis is reshaping every part of our industry. Burnout, staffing shortages, rising patient ...

Dr Harpreet Singh Kalra finds himself under scrutiny after the Care Quality Commission recently placed one of his surgeries ...

COLUMBIA, SC – Columbia VA Health Care System earned seven Zero Harm Awards through South Carolina’s statewide Zero Harm ...

The property tax that generates about $70 million annually is meant to benefit the city’s poorest patients. It’s about to ...

With its Zero Harm 24/7 project, the patient experience organization is asking health systems to help drive improvements in transparency and culture by establishing a standardized patient and staff ...

In this conversation, Thomas McGinn, M.D., MPH, senior executive vice president and chief physician executive officer at CommonSpirit Health, shares how the organization aligns leadership, ...

Joint Commission 2026 National Performance Goals require hospitals to align staffing decisions with patient safety and clinical needs continuously.

Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital ranks among the nation’s top hospitals for quality and safety for the eighth ...

International Health Dialogue (IHD) 2026 opened today in Hyderabad, bringing together clinicians, patient safety leaders, ...

WHEN a patient is harmed in a hospital, our cultural reflex is to hunt for a villain. A doctor is named, a nurse is scrutinized, and an institution braces for legal combat. This instinct, deeply ...

Karen Fowler, M.P.H., who helped develop the guide and is a longtime patient safety specialist at the VA Center for Clinical ...