More hospitals are turning to patient codes of conducts to protect healthcare workers amid a rise in rude and violent behavior. However, banning patients — especially those with behavioral health needs — who don't exhibit physical threats can pose a care quality concern, Lisa Morrise wrote in a Sept. 12 blog post for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. 

Police said the patient who allegedly put a Rhode Island nurse in the hospital attacked him over phone privileges, ABC affiliate WPRI reported Sept. 18.

Police are investigating the death of an infant who was found dead in a patient's room at Covenant Health Hobbs (N.M.) Hospital.

The American Society for Health Care Risk Management has named Tracy Melina, a leader at Danbury, Conn.-based Nuvance Health, the 2023 Risk Management Professional of the Year.

Physicians at NYU Langone performed the transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a decedent organ recipient in July and now, 61 days later, have completed what is said to be the "longest-documented case of a genetically engineered pig kidney functioning in a human body," according to a Sept. 14 news release.

Two organ recipients contracted Legionnaires' disease after receiving organs from a single donor who died drowning in a fresh body of water, according to a Sept. 15 CDC report. The incident raises concerns and new considerations for clinicians to take into account.

Authorities are offering $30,000 for information leading to the arrest of Christopher Haynes, a homicide suspect who escaped custody at George Washington University Hospital on Sept. 6, according to ABC News.

A man who escaped a New York City hospital by rappelling out of the fifth-story window with bed sheets has been arrested again, CBS News reported Sept. 12.

Meghan Huffman, senior director of digital health at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health, survived the Sept. 8 Moroccan earthquake that has killed at least 2,500 people, the Charlotte Observer reported.

A patient shot and killed himself inside Inspira Medical Center in Vineland, N.J., on Sept. 9 in an incident that prompted lockdown of the hospital, according to the Courier Post. 

The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare organizations to think differently about the workplace. Hospital and health system employees, particularly certain non-clinical staff, started working remotely when the crisis struck. 

The national organization behind the annual hospital safety grade rankings Leapfrog Group, is praising the new patient safety recommendations published Sept. 7 by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Researchers from Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital discovered that the exercise-induced hormone, irisin, lowers levels of a main component in the plaques found in individuals with Alzheimer's disease.

A federal patient safety coordinator should be appointed to advise the president on ways to improve safety at hospitals nationwide — that's one of the initiatives the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recommended in a Sept. 7 report. 

Physicians prescribe more unnecessary antibiotics during colder months than warmer seasons, according to a study published Sept. 5 in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology. 

Police in Washington, D.C., are searching for a man charged with murder who escaped custody at George Washington University Hospital, according to The Washington Post.

The victim in a possible murder-suicide at a Mississippi hospital has died, NBC affiliate WLBT reported Sept. 6.

While 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is often cited as the standard for normal body temperature, adults' average body temperature may be closer to 97.9 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a study published Sept. 5 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

A patient at Oregon State Hospital in Salem, who was awaiting felony charges and escaped his restraints, was apprehended Sept. 1, NBC affiliate KGW reported. 

Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide attempt at Jackson, Miss.-based Baptist Memorial Hospital that left one person dead and another critically injured, ABC affiliate WAPT reported Sep. 5.