The crane is being used to build the state's new forensic psychiatric hospital.

An inquest hears nurses were told multiple times that Gregory Dervin was unsteady before his death.

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 ...

A North Carolina startup is working to change that. DwellSafe, whose team works out of Asheville and New York City, has ...

The crane is being used to build the state's new forensic psychiatric hospital on the Western State Hospital campus in Lakewood.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Low staffing levels and “missed nursing care” may be directly associated with higher risk of patient falls, according to research published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. For their study, ...

Patients with both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and severe pain are at an almost 40% predicted probability of falling, indicating the potential interaction between the conditions.

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 ...