Falls are a serious public health problem globally, particularly in acute care hospitals, where hospitalized patients are at high risk for falls and may experience adverse outcomes such as prolonged ...

Patient safety is a top priority in healthcare, and one of the biggest challenges hospitals face is preventing falls. These accidents can lead to longer hospital stays and even serious injury.1 While ...

Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has announced it has released two new toolkits geared toward helping healthcare facilities to build programs addressing patient falls and ...

Every second, someone somewhere in the United States takes a devastating fall, contributing to a massive $50 billion annual healthcare burden, a figure set to double by 2030 as the baby boomer ...

Data from more than 750 hospitals indicate the most effective tool to reduce inpatient falls is sensor technology, according to a Sept. 10 report from Sg2, a Vizient company. Fall-prevention sensor ...

If your facility provides care for older adults, you can provide this checklist to them, in the form of an 8-page brochure, to help reduce the likelihood of a home fall after they are released from ...

A new educational model that informs long-term care providers on intervention methods to help reduce falls and fractures in high-risk residents has been found effective in raising awareness and ...

Three major hospitals in Rockford, Illinois, received average "C" grades for patient safety from the Leapfrog Group. The nonprofit Leapfrog Group grades hospitals twice a year on preventing medical ...