New data show that hospitals’ and health systems’ relentless focus on safety and quality improvement is paying off for ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine, the society representing more than 31,000 hospitalists and the hospital medicine specialty, has implemented several successful patient safety initiatives that have ...

If you had to describe a hospital’s mission, philosophy and guiding light with a single word, safety would sit at the top of ...

Today, The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization of employers and other purchasers focused on health care safety and quality, announced the 2025 recipients for their elite annual Top ...

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System launched its “No Harm Campaign” in 2008, a system-wide approach to patient safety that has a goal of reducing adverse events by 50 percent by 2013. HFHS is ...

To construct a truly outstanding patient-safety and quality control program, hospitals must first have a strong quality foundation. Many hospitals attempt to launch sophisticated initiatives and find ...

Seven New Jersey hospitals earned Leapfrog Group Top Hospital awards for patient safety and quality among 156 honorees ...

Connecticut’s hospitals are ranked fourth nationally in patient safety with half earning an “A” rating hospital safety grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national patient safety watchdog group. The ...

UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay (left), the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights (top right), and UCSF Health St. Mary’s Hospital (bottom right). Three UCSF Health hospitals ...

How safe is your hospital? A national watchdog has analyzed hospital data for more than 20 years, giving A to F grades to hospitals nationwide twice a year for patient safety. Florida hospitals are ...

The name “340B” comes from the section of the U.S. Public Health Service Act of 1992 that requires pharmaceutical ...