Haven COO Jack Stoddard cited personal reasons, including the long commute from Philadelphia to the company's Boston headquarters, for stepping down, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
Healthgrades on Tuesday released its list of the 460 hospitals winning the 2019 Patient Safety Excellence Award and the 434 hospitals winning the Outstanding Patient Experience Award.
Many people imagine that the hardest thing about nursing must be dealing with "vomit or needles or blood," Andrea Pellerin, a registered nurse at Covenant HealthCare in Michigan, wrote in viral Facebook post—but the reality is very different.
Singapore's health care system is considered "an example of excellence," Aaron Carroll, a professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, writes in the New York Times' "The Upshot"—but a recent visit revealed why Americans may not be able to use the health system as "a possible model for" its own innovation.
Upon learning that roughly half of employees who went to specialized hospitals for back surgery found out they didn't actually need it, Walmart has started encouraging its workers to go to high-quality imaging centers, to ensure better, more accurate scans, Phil Galewitz reports for Kaiser Health News.
