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University hospitals exec: ‘Healthcare is riddled with mindless variation’

December 21, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, is the chief quality and clinical transformation officer at University Hospitals. The critical care physician has a global reputation as a patient safety champion, including ...

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From crisis to opportunity: partnering to address SDOH, health disparities

December 21, 2025

Health Equity, Leadership & Finance

A recent McKinsey & Company report, for example, found that during the pandemic, rural communities with diverse populations experienced 1.7 times more COVID-19 deaths per capita than other rural c...

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Stroke benchmarks during COVID: HFAP releases latest report

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

HFAP, a brand of the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC), issued its annual benchmarking report on stroke programs recently, which demonstrated COVID-19’s impact on these programs. HFAP co...

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Nurses urge CDC to reinstate universal masking

December 21, 2025

Policies and Procedures, Infection Control, Workplace safety

The United States is seeing a 16% increase in daily new cases over the previous week and more than 40 states have an increase in daily new cases over the previous two weeks as well as 25 states seeing...

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I-PASS reaches major milestones

December 21, 2025

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety, Quality & Errors

Handoff process marks five years of success Failures in communication frequently prompt medical errors, which make up one of the leading causes of death in the United States, behind heart dise...

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TJC warns immediate threats to safety ‘spiking’ over single-use devices

September 15, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Check your emergency rooms, outpatient clinics and anywhere else where pandemic-related equipment shortages have forced your facility to go outside normal supply lines for replacement medical devices....

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More virus, more fraud

December 21, 2025

Workplace safety, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

With the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19, mask and vaccine mandates are coming back, and hospitals are reaching or exceeding capacity in some regions. That may mean higher demand for personal ...

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‘Perfect storm’ increased healthcare-associated infections during pandemic

December 21, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety

There has been a significant increase in healthcare-associated infections (HAI) during the coronavirus pandemic, a recent research article found. From 2015 to 2019, there were decreases in the prevale...

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Breaking news: CMS to require staff at hospitals, other facilities to be vaccinated against COVID-19

September 09, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Look for an interim final rule in October that will require “staff within all Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities” to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a press release by CMS on Thur...

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Offer your comment on TJC EM revisions and USP drug compounding chapters

September 02, 2021

You now have a chance to weigh in on proposed revisions to Joint Commission emergency management standards as well as long-delayed revisions to the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) chapters on sterile and non-...

University hospitals exec: ‘Healthcare is riddled with mindless variation’

From crisis to opportunity: partnering to address SDOH, health disparities

Stroke benchmarks during COVID: HFAP releases latest report

Nurses urge CDC to reinstate universal masking

I-PASS reaches major milestones

TJC warns immediate threats to safety ‘spiking’ over single-use devices

More virus, more fraud

‘Perfect storm’ increased healthcare-associated infections during pandemic

Breaking news: CMS to require staff at hospitals, other facilities to be vaccinated against COVID-19

Offer your comment on TJC EM revisions and USP drug compounding chapters

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