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Yelp ratings of healthcare facilities may reveal death rate disparities

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

U.S. counties with healthcare facilities with the greatest share of 1-star Yelp reviews had the highest death rates, and a difference of just one point—roughly one star—between counties’ average score...

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Three characteristics of a good clinical decision support tool

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

An effective clinical decision support tool is available at the point of care, is as current as possible, and is accurate, a chief medical information officer says. Medical knowledge advances rapid...

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Mitigate patient safety risks posed by the ‘imaging squeeze’

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

Radiology is an essential component of modern medicine. It plays an integral role in the prevention, detection, and diagnosis of disease, as well as in treatment delivery and patient care. Moreover, i...

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Huddles, Handoffs, and Heedfulness are Key to Preventing Harm to Patients

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

The most effective tool for patient safety? Frequent and thorough communication throughout each shift, says Andrea Truex, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer of Englewood (Florida) Community Hospital, whic...

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OSHA Cites Nursing Facility Under COVID-19 ETS

December 19, 2025

Workplace safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited a Bloomingdale, Illinois, nursing facility with violations of the agency’s COVID-19 healthcare emergency temporary standard (ETS). OSHA c...

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ATA Seeks Telehealth PHE Measures ‘At Least Through 2022’

December 19, 2025

Cybersecurity & Technology

Telehealth stakeholders are asking the Biden Administration to provide guidance on the anticipated end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency while also calling for the extension of the PHE and its t...

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OSHA issues COVID-19 vaccination or testing emergency standard

November 04, 2021

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) November 4 issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring employers with 100 or more employees to implement a program of COVID-19 vacci...

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CMS, OSHA issue vaccine mandates that may impact staff shortages

November 04, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Start evaluating staffing levels and develop a plan for educating your workforce on new CMS and OSHA worker COVID-19 vaccine mandates that could impact staffing shortages at hospitals and other health...

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CMS interim rule on vaccinations supersedes state or local orders

November 05, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Workplace safety

The new CMS interim final rule that requires staff vaccinations against COVID-19 supersedes state or local laws or orders that prevent vaccine mandates. But the CMS rule may not cover all healthcare e...

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Patient characteristics play key role in success of video telemedicine visits, study says

December 19, 2025

Cybersecurity & Technology

Patient characteristics including older age and ethnicity are associated with the successful completion of video telemedicine visits, a new research article says. Telemedicine visits have increased ex...

Yelp ratings of healthcare facilities may reveal death rate disparities

Three characteristics of a good clinical decision support tool

Mitigate patient safety risks posed by the ‘imaging squeeze’

Huddles, Handoffs, and Heedfulness are Key to Preventing Harm to Patients

OSHA Cites Nursing Facility Under COVID-19 ETS

ATA Seeks Telehealth PHE Measures ‘At Least Through 2022’

OSHA issues COVID-19 vaccination or testing emergency standard

CMS, OSHA issue vaccine mandates that may impact staff shortages

CMS interim rule on vaccinations supersedes state or local orders

Patient characteristics play key role in success of video telemedicine visits, study says

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