Explore the systemic issues affecting mental health inpatient safety and discover how better workforce, culture, and accountability can drive safer, high‑quality care.

Improving care transitions for patients with Opioid Use Disorder and Stimulant Use Disorder in inpatient, primary care and ...

Health systems have historically operated like a real estate portfolio or a disparate collection of assets, with each site having its own performance metrics, finances and operating processes. Too ...

Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe. To this end, a new health care delivery system is needed—one that both prevents errors and incorporates lessons learned from ...

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After a cardiac arrest, families and doctors are often faced with agonizing uncertainty about a patient's chances of recovery. This uncertainty is even greater in hospitals with limited resources, ...

Getty Images Jim Anderson, MPAS, PA-C, discusses how patient-perceived discrimination by a practitioner can lead to delays in seeking treatment, potentially affecting patient outcomes. There has long ...

Adverse events during hospitalization are a major cause of patient harm, as documented in the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study. Patient safety has changed substantially in the decades since that ...

Health care providers may encounter immigration officers in their hospitals and practices, but they can take steps to prepare ...

Eury Holliday went to the emergency room at Health First's Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne in 2021, expecting a wait and, possibly, a hospital stay. The 83-year-old Palm Bay man has ...