Accreditation & Patient Safety Roundup merger

December 18, 2025

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Hey everyone!

We’ve combined the monthly newsletter roundups for Inside Accreditation & Quality and Patient Safety Monitor Journal into the Accreditation & Patient Safety Roundup. We decided that since Basic and Platinum subscribers are able to access both IAQ and PSMJ, it didn’t make sense to do two separate roundups.

We sent the first of these combined roundups yesterday, August 5, with the subject line AQCC Roundup (IAQ and PSMJ)- August 2019. If you didn’t get this email, check your junk mail. If it’s not there, email me at bward@hcpro.com and we’ll help solve the problem.

Starting in September, these roundups will go out with the subject line Accreditation & Patient Safety Roundup – Month/Year. And you can also find the PDFs of this month’s august edition under News & Analysis> IAQ (or PSMJ) > 2019 > August > Download Full Issue.

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Accrediting organizations suspend most survey activities to focus on COVID-19

March 18, 2020

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

If you are expecting a survey from your accreditation organization (AO) in the upcoming weeks and months, check in with your liaison. Some AOs are suspending most or all survey activities as COVID-19 ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Verma raps accrediting organizations’ ‘glaring conflict of interest’

December 18, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma took a swipe at accrediting organizations, noting that when they accept consulting fees from the hospitals they grade it creates ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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The Joint Commission seeks to reduce maternal deaths

March 24, 2020

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Joint Commission (TJC) has issued guidance and an alert to hospitals to help prevent what it calls a shocking number of women who die from typically preventable pregnancy complications. The acc...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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You be the surveyor, April 2020

March 24, 2020

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

What deficiencies would you cite and why? And how would you correct them? You be the surveyor. The following information was taken from a CMS Form-2567 “Statement of Deficiencies” posted online ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Coronavirus and preparing for the worst

December 18, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

Preparing for a worldwide pandemic, especially when you don’t know how fast it will spread or how serious its consequences will be, is one of the hardest things that healthcare workers do. ...