Greenfield Healthcare & Rehabilitation was cited after a patient suffered a broken hip and went into shock due to improper ...

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 ...

Healthcare facilities around the country are implementing different protocols to limit the number of patient falls, which may result in injury and readmission. 1. Hundreds of thousands of patients ...

A patient died after falling from a fifth-floor window at Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center in Grantville, Calif., according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. Police are investigating the March 30 ...

Patients taking antihypertensive medication experienced a higher rate of serious fall injuries, especially if they had a previous fall injury, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Using 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 ...

Firefighters spent more than one hour early Sunday morning trying to get the man out of the shaft inside the Medstar Health ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Significantly more patients from the injurious fall group had all but one of the studied prescription classes ...

Hospital staff were warned several times that a patient was unsteady before he fell and suffered a catastrophic brain injury, an inquest heard. Gregory Dervin, 35, died a week after hitting his head ...

People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at high risk for repeated falls and for fall-related injuries, including fractures and head injuries, researchers report in an article published online ...