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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Florida healthcare facility cited for nearly 200 workplace violence incidents in 2022

February 15, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced “shocking” findings of a workplace safety investigation into a behavioral health and substance disorder facility in Jacksonville, Fla...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Create safe, inclusive care environments for transgender and gender-nonconforming patients

February 15, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Health Equity

Concerning results from a poll of transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) youth show that nearly one-third of respondents report not feeling safe to go to the doctor or hospital when they are sick...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: Customizing team-based care

February 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Jeff Salvon-Harman, MD, CPE, CPPS, vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, spoke with PSMJ about how to create a team-based care model that works best for your hospital, clinic, or...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CDC: New RSV vaccine recommended for adults over 60

February 15, 2026

Infection Control, Patient Safety

Two new Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccines have been recommended by the CDC for use in older patients. The new RSV vaccines from GSK and Pfizer are the first ones licensed in the U.S. to prote...

Medical Environment Update

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Laboratory sanitizer policies post-COVID

February 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Laboratory Safety

If your lab or clinic hasn’t done so already, it will have to review its supply, storage, and placement of alcohol-based hand rub and sanitizers, says Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, a laboratory safety o...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

February 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff

“Often the work drives us together, but again, then it gets to that difference between ‘we connect when we have to because the work demands it’ versus ‘we’re intentional in the team construct and we m...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Study identifies interventions physicians and nurses want to address burnout

February 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Healthcare Staff

To address burnout, physicians and nurses prefer actions to boost nurse staffing, increase clinician control over workload, and improve work environments rather than wellness programs and resilience t...

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Four ways nurse leaders can effectively retain staff

February 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Healthcare Staff

One of the most common practices among nurse leaders to improve retention is employee rounding—so much so that the time-consuming practice has been “hard-wired” into leadership routines. Problem is, r...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac’s Safety Space: CMS survey warning—There will be no warning!

July 17, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In its ever-increasing strategies to assert control over the accreditation survey process, the good folks at CMS have basically instructed the various accreditation organizations to cease and desist f...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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OSHA: Respiratory protections, bloodborne pathogens, and hazard communication lead hospital violations

July 18, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Get your respiratory protection program up to date and make sure it’s written and enforced, because OSHA inspectors are pressing to put those violations in a category that could mean a penalty of up t...

Florida healthcare facility cited for nearly 200 workplace violence incidents in 2022

Create safe, inclusive care environments for transgender and gender-nonconforming patients

Q&A: Customizing team-based care

CDC: New RSV vaccine recommended for adults over 60

Laboratory sanitizer policies post-COVID

Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

Study identifies interventions physicians and nurses want to address burnout

Four ways nurse leaders can effectively retain staff

Mac’s Safety Space: CMS survey warning—There will be no warning!

OSHA: Respiratory protections, bloodborne pathogens, and hazard communication lead hospital violations

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OSHA Dental Facilities Update - November 2023

OSHA Medical Facilities Update - November 2023

Tab 2, Medical Facilities OSHA Manual- August 2023

Tab 2, Dental Facility OSHA Manual- August 2023

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