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The Surgeon General released a report on smoking cessation reviewing and updating the evidence on why it is important to quit smoking. The report covers the health and economic benefits of smoking cessation to both the individual and society, updates findings on nicotine addiction and highlights a…
The American Hospital Association partnered with the SOAR for Organizations and the Department of Health and Human Services' National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center to offer free in-person training on human trafficking March 4–5 in Nashville, Tenn. The training was…
An American Hospital Association (AHA) webinar, Instilling Value With Low-Tech Solutions, will be held on Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. In this webinar, AHA’s Value Initiative teams up with leaders from Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, Calif.
State reforms expanded the role of APRNs on multiple fronts. Arkansas, Florida and South Carolina recently advanced APRN prescriptive authority for opioids in specific circumstances, and legislation enacted in other states improved or clarified APRN scope of practice, including signature authority.
In a joint hearing entitled Expecting More: Addressing America’s Maternal and Infant Health Crisis, two subcommittees of the House Education and Labor Committee heard testimony focused on ways to reduce maternal mortality and eliminate racial disparities in maternal and infant health. Leaders from…
According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), of the approximately 70,000 deaths resulting from drug overdoses that occurred in 2018, 69% were opioid related. In a review of barriers to Medicaid beneficiaries’ access to medication-assisted treatment, the GAO reported the ability of…
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted interim guidance related to the 2019 novel coronavirus for health care professionals. The posting provides criteria for evaluating a patient under investigation for having the virus, including clinical features and epidemiologic…
On Jan. 21, medical device manufacturer Cardinal Health recalled specific production lots of several types of single-sterile and bulk non-sterile surgical gowns in response to concerns about their potential contamination. The company says the gowns were manufactured at facilities that did not…
Citing Florence Nightingale’s admonition to “do the sick no harm,” an executive patient safety officer at Matheny Hospital in Peapack, N.J., recommends focusing on six principles as hospitals strive to eliminate preventable harm. He advocates for a systems approach to reaching high reliability,…
After reviewing its National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs), the Joint Commission has approved moving requirements for the following NPSGs to its accreditation standards: Transfusion errors related to patient misidentification; multidrug-resistant organisms; central line-associated bloodstream…