The U.S. ranks dead last out of 13 industrialized nations when it comes to women dying during pregnancy or due to pregnancy-related complications, according to a 2022 report by the ...
How do you remove harms and dangers from your medical environment? Safety officials have studied this question for years and found many innovative solutions to various issues. But when deciding what action to take in removing a threat, the best tool to use is the hierarchy of controls:
IHI President Kedar Mate sat down with Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, the chief health equity officer and the senior vice president for the AMA, and Glenn Harris, the president of Race Forward and publisher of Colorlines. Both of their...
One thing often missing from the healthcare equity conversation, Mate said, is the impact of moral injury on the well-being of providers—specifically related to the inability to treat the underlying causes of patients’ suffering.
Amid the countless standards, regulations, rules, and policies that healthcare workers are expected to comply with, it’s possible to lose sight of what all those things are for—improving patient care. The distinction might seem even more nebulous for nurses, doctors, and other providers who don’...
Members of the LGBTQ+ community often experience discrimination, and that can extend to the realm of healthcare. A community member’s wellness can be put at risk due to healthcare workers’ lack of experience or training, not seeking care out of fear of being stigmatized or discriminated against...
How does your medical staff team handle a situation in which a physician with documented red flags resigns during an investigation or prior to an investigation?
Most organizations agree that ending avoidable disparities and harm in healthcare is not just a social concern, but a patient safety one as well—one that will require strong, engaged, and committed leadership.
At the end of the IHI’s presentation, viewers were able to ask some leadership...
As practitioners, we don’t always have the privilege to determine what is ethical or not. That is why most fiduciary bodies of medicine, law, clergy, and many others have ethical standards for their membership. In fact, most of these organizations have the power to remove members if they fail to...