California hospital fined 43K after a medication error led to immediate jeopardy and patient harm at Memorial Medical Center in Modesto.

The state assessed a $43,000 penalty following a medication error and also criticized the hospital’s handling of emergency ...

When it comes to improving patient safety in the United States, the healthcare industry is making progress — but not nearly ...

ROCHESTER — The Minnesota Department of Health's Office of Health Facility Complaints has substantiated a complaint of neglect at a Rochester nursing home. According to the report, made public on ...

Each year, a staggering 400,000 people are estimated to have died due to medical errors. What's more, each day there's also 10,000 serious complications resulting from medical mistakes. Part of the ...

Healthcare leaders and medical technology companies examined ways to reduce medical errors at a patient safety summit Jan. 13. By the end of the summit, healthcare providers and medtech companies had ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Flagging medical errors through a system that emphasizes a lack of punishment and maintains anonymity yields more reports than a traditional method of reporting errors, a ...

For a fourth year in a row, Maryland recorded an increase in reported medical mistakes, including some that were fatal, the state’s Department of Health said in its annual patient safety report. The ...

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HEALTH officials have issued an urgent warning over a common anti-diarrhoea medication. Some batches of the drug were ...