The purpose of a qualified risk management department in healthcare is to assess, monitor, and implement plans and policies in order to decrease their exposure. There are many areas that need to be ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins recently calculated that more than 250,000 deaths each year are due to medical error, making it the third leading U.S. cause of death behind only heart disease and cancer.

Family nurse practicioner Julie Klaker gives a sports physical to Brian Aguirre, 16, at the Spanish Peaks Outreach Clinic where hospitals and clinics are scarce. The nation's nursing shortage often ...

Nursing home workers should consider depression as a risk factor for resident falls, authors of a new study say. Depression is already reported as an independent risk factor for falls. In fact, it can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . .An unhealthy lifestyle was associated with a “marked increased risk” of admission to a nursing home Researchers ...

The director of risk and compliance for Beckley ARH Hospital, Morgan Martin, has been appointed to the board for the West ...

Morgan Martin, director of risk and compliance for Beckley ARH Hospital, was recently named to the board of the West Virginia ...

A team of four students from Brown University founded Intus Care to help providers make data-driven management decisions for their patients The Boston Globe’s weekly Ocean State Innovators column ...

Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published ...

An audit of North Carolina’s health and human services department cited problems in its oversight of nursing homes, including delays in inspections, complaint investigations and verifying corrective ...