The following was submitted by Central Vermont Medical Center as an announcement and commentary on steps taken over the past year to improve staff and patient safety at the hospital.

A 62-year-old woman, patient in a Greek public hospital, who received blood transfusion with wrong type of blood, is considered "brain dead".

The ICE raids and immigration scares could go on indefinitely, or they could end abruptly. Either way, health providers say, there’s a long-term price to be paid in California when those who rely on ...

Lucian Leape, MD, former chief of pediatric surgery at Burlington, Mass.-based Tufts Medicine and a pioneer in the field of patient safety, has died. He was 94. Dr. Leape co-authored a 1999 “landmark” ...

Despite resistance from the medical establishment, he found systemic ways to reduce errors, paving the way for a global ...

Lucian Leape, MD, considered by many to be the father of the patient safety movement, died Monday in Lexington, Massachusetts ...

WellSpan is a multispecialty medical group of 23,000 team members providing nationally recognized, advanced specialty care ...

Registered nurses at UC San Diego Health will hold a press conference on Thursday, July 3 to denounce the disruptions caused ...

As patients become more involved in managing their care, the demand for accessing their healthcare data will only grow.

Hospitals face tough challenges like protecting patient information, keeping people safe, following rules, stopping germs ...

A 2010 systematic review by Jill Hall and coauthors found poor-quality evidence that patient engagement can improve safety through self-monitoring of anticoagulation medication, designing patient ...

Diagnostic errors pose a significant risk to patient safety, affecting an estimated twelve million US adult outpatients annually 1 and leading to an estimated 6–17 percent of all adverse events ...