The National Center for Patient Safety offers a free, downloadable pocket card designed to help healthcare providers measure the risk of patient falls. Healthcare providers can use the Morse Fall ...

Overall, there is little variation in interventions used to prevent patient falls, despite different risk levels, according to a new data analysis from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

How Via Christi Health avoided patient fall injuries for 600+ days Pittsburg, Kan.-based Via Christi Hospital had no patient suffer an injury from a fall that required them to stay longer in the ...

After incorporating machine learning technology into its fall prevention program, El Camino Hospital significantly improved fall rates. Identifying patients who are risk for falling is a key component ...

Inpatient clinical care teams generally use tools such as bed alarms, gait belts, closer nursing station placement and more to prevent patient falls. But those interventions can hinder clinical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Football fan Gregory Dervin had been treated in various hospitals for 492 days before his death [Dervin family] Hospital staff ...

More than half of elderly patients (age 65 and older) who visited an emergency department because of injuries sustained in a fall suffered adverse events -- including additional falls, hospitalization ...

Patient falls are a serious safety concern in hospitals. Injuries from falls can be devastating to patients and are now subject to reimbursement penalties from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Stephanie Conquest, RN, administrator of Franklin, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Surgery Center Cool Springs, joined Becker’s to discuss key strategies for enhancing quality and patient satisfaction and the ...

Wynnewood, PA — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent for a device invented by Barbara Wadsworth, DNP, RN, FAAN, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Main ...