Even though health care workers outnumber construction workers 2-1, the agency responsible for worker safety — the Occupational Safety and Health Administration — conducts nearly 20 times more ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been well-intentioned calls to honor our health care workers. But to truly honor them, we need to keep them safe. Keeping health workers safe is not just a ...

A general view of The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which operates the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) among others, as ...

Patients and caregivers play a central role in health care safety in the hospital, ambulatory care setting, and community. Despite this, interventions to promote patient engagement in safety are ...

The International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety’s 2023 Healthcare Crime Survey showed that simple assault on health care facility staff rose over three years from 10 incidents ...

It only takes four words to sum up the culture of a Connecticut health care system that is the only one in the nation that ...

A t the urging of health care experts and policymakers, members of the committee that authored the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) 2000 report, America’s Health Care Safety Net: Intact but ...

These are places where the providers become really good at providing high-quality, efficient care. There would be a lot more Parklands around if we changed the way the health care safety net operates.

SPRINGFIELD — Health care workers and advocates held a rally inside the Illinois State Capitol on Thursday to promote legislation aimed at enhancing the safety of hospital employees amid ...

Pittsburghers are commercializing safety tech, but health care has unique challenges. expand. By Laurie Bailey – for Jewish Healthcare Foundation. Feb 3, 2025.