When thinking about the best way to teach students safe patient handling techniques, nursing and radiation therapy faculty at the University of Michigan-Flint decided to tap a valuable resource – students from other programs. A recent interprofessional education event brought occupational therapy and physical therapy graduate students together with nursing and radiation therapy undergraduate students…

We must make it easier for innovation to take root and thrive within our health and social services ecosystem. Stifling change in favor of doing what’s always been done is simply not working: a recent report ranks the U.S. last in access to care, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes compared to other developed…

Mercer County Community Hospital was recently recognized by the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program as a “Gold Safe Sleep Hospital,” for their commitment to best practices and education on infant safe sleep. The National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program was created by Cribs for Kids®, a national infant safe sleep organization. Headquartered in Pittsburgh,…

Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration voiced concerns in a Monday letter that Cardinal Health failed to sufficiently mitigate the risk of incompatibility between its syringes and certain pumps in its communication to healthcare providers. Cardinal wrote to its customers in September to explain that some lots of Monoject Luer-lock tip syringes are incompatible with certain…