If your facility provides care for older adults, you can provide this checklist to them, in the form of an 8-page brochure, to help reduce the likelihood of a home fall after they are released from ...

Patient safety is a top priority in healthcare, and one of the biggest challenges hospitals face is preventing falls. These accidents can lead to longer hospital stays and even serious injury.1 While ...

Falls are a serious public health problem globally, particularly in acute care hospitals, where hospitalized patients are at high risk for falls and may experience adverse outcomes such as prolonged ...

Patient falls — a persistent healthcare safety issue — are more often tied to system failures than poor adherence to evidence-based interventions known as fall prevention bundles, according to a ...

The Biden administration met World Patient Safety Day with a blitz of new programs, panel discussions and commitments from government agencies as well as healthcare industry organizations all focused ...

Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has announced it has released two new toolkits geared toward helping healthcare facilities to build programs addressing patient falls and ...

Record fall deaths among older Americans prompt calls for routine screening, safer exam rooms, and stable clinical seating in hospitals and clinics nationwide. TAMPA ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Two University Hospitals facilities and third associated with UH received D grades in the recently released fall 2024 Hospital Safety Grade report, while several other hospitals, ...

Patient falls remain one of the most common and costly adverse events in healthcare, yet many prevention programs still focus on reactive measures. Experts now emphasize a systems-based approach that ...

Three major hospitals in Rockford, Illinois, received average "C" grades for patient safety from the Leapfrog Group. The nonprofit Leapfrog Group grades hospitals twice a year on preventing medical ...