Issue Browser | .accreditationqualitycenter

[current-page:query:publication]

ARTICLES IN Inside Accreditation & Quality - VOLUME 4 ISSUE 1 - PRINT FULL ISSUE

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

Study: Pediatric epilepsy patients responded well to telemedicine during pandemic

April 16, 2026

Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology

Researchers are encouraged by early efforts to read pediatric epilepsy patients via telemedicine, but say more work is necessary to reach wider populations. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

Researcher: ‘The Levees Have Broken’ at emergency departments

April 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The new studies examine boarding of patients in emergency departments before they are moved to inpatient beds and patients who left without being seen (LWBS), the latter presumably because of ED crowd...

Mac's Safety Space

- Volume

Issue

Introducing the worser case scenarios…

October 10, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

As we open up the risk assessment process to the outpatient behavioral health environments, the question becomes how much risk can there be to identify as a going concern? ...

Medical Environment Update

- Volume

Issue

Fall laboratory safety 2023

April 16, 2026

Laboratory Safety, Leadership & Finance, Fire & Life Safety

Summer is officially over, and the clocks will fall back an hour this upcoming weekend. It’s a time of transition as people bring out their fall clothes, enjoy spiced drinks, and ready themselves for ...

Volume

Issue

Cybersecurity threats are real and affect all healthcare teams

April 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

These threats are everyone’s game, and that means anyone in charge of life safety and healthcare security from a physical and technical perspective can be affected. And government regulators are takin...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

Issue

Blood pressure device maintenance, with or without manufacturer instructions

April 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The most ubiquitous tools in healthcare include blood pressure cuffs (BPC) and other blood pressure (BP) measuring devices, and their importance can’t be overstated. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

Sentara healthcare boosts efforts to address social determinants of health

April 16, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Health Equity

Sentara Healthcare has launched a community care program to provide neighborhood-level access to services for people who are on Medicaid or are uninsured or underinsured. ...

Mac's Safety Space

- Volume

Issue

Walking in the shadow of the big man: CMS isn’t done with emergency preparedness

February 14, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Imagine that! The turn of February brought with it the latest epistle from our friends at CMS as they continue to noodle on the preparedness of the...

Mac's Safety Space

- Volume

Issue

Power Up: When your generator doesn’t carry a 30% load

January 31, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Cybersecurity & Technology

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Particularly for smaller facilities (or, I suppose, big places with multiple generators), consistently meeting the requirement for a 30% load during m...

Mac's Safety Space

- Volume

Issue

Don’t bleed before you are wounded, and if you can avoid being wounded…

February 07, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant …so much the better! Part of me is wondering what took them so long to get to this point in the conversation. In their latest Quick Safety utter...

Study: Pediatric epilepsy patients responded well to telemedicine during pandemic

Researcher: ‘The Levees Have Broken’ at emergency departments

Introducing the worser case scenarios…

Fall laboratory safety 2023

Cybersecurity threats are real and affect all healthcare teams

Blood pressure device maintenance, with or without manufacturer instructions

Sentara healthcare boosts efforts to address social determinants of health

Walking in the shadow of the big man: CMS isn’t done with emergency preparedness

Power Up: When your generator doesn’t carry a 30% load

Don’t bleed before you are wounded, and if you can avoid being wounded…

Resource/w tools selected

STET CMS & tools

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

Chapter 2: Chapter Format and Tracer Planning