In a Dec. 6 webinar hosted by Becker’s Healthcare, Linda Lansing, senior vice president of clinical services, and Kelly Bemis, director of clinical services at Surgical Care Affiliates, discussed ...

Websites have become essential for most any modern business. But all websites are not created equal, and it’s important to ensure you are doing your part to keep your business’s website secure. When ...

In 2010, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., implemented the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist to reduce infection rates in the operating room. While a ...

Hospitals in South Carolina that chose to participate in a statewide program implementing a form of the Surgical Safety Checklist developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) saw their death rates ...

It’s tempting to assume that employees, managers, and leaders will naturally prioritize tasks and follow procedures. However, relying solely on memory or trust is an unreliable strategy. Instead, ...

Every hospital in South Carolina, led by the South Carolina Hospital Association, has vowed to implement the use of the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist in all operating rooms by ...

On at least three occasions in 2007, surgeons at one Rhode Island hospital operated on the wrong side of their patients' heads. In one case, a resident neurosurgeon ...

Yet procedures are essential. They maintain control, ensure consistency, enable training of your growing staff, avoid issues with legislative regulators and authorities, demonstrate due diligence and ...

Managers in different fields are discovering the merits of implementing checklists, from landing an aircraft on the Hudson river in New York to saving lives in hospitals AFTER HE landed US Airways ...

As shelter-in-place orders are being lifted, businesses are considering how and when to re-open workplaces that will look very different than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. New employee safety ...