A federal administrative law judge has determined that the manager of Fuller Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts exposed employees to workplace...
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A fire at a Massachusetts hospital’s electrical transformer forced an undetermined number of evacuations on Tuesday morning and power was...
A federal investigation released Monday of a hot steam accident that killed two workers conducting maintenance on a boiler system...
Inspectors who visited Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital found that safety problems that thrust the facility into the national spotlight...
Hospitals that implement safe patient handling and moving policies may find these practices associated with fewer injuries among healthcare workers,...
Medical errors in the U.S. account for more than 250,000 deaths per year, which makes them the third leading cause...
America’s system for ensuring that medical devices are safe failed at every turn when dirty endoscopes began spreading deadly superbugs,...
Fewer patients are dying from conditions acquired while staying in the nation’s hospitals, according to a new federal report. Statistics...
The lack of teamwork combined with a negative culture and poor communication in hospitals today presents a barrier when it...
A hospital patient care and safety initiative aimed at preventing medical errors and hospital-acquired infections could save thousands of lives...