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ECRI: Healthcare organizations must address racist behavior in the workplace

December 18, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Behavioral & Mental Health, Health Equity, Workplace safety

The majority of the racist incidents involved patients and family members making inappropriate comments related to race or ethnicity. These comments can have a negative impact on the mental health of ...

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UPMC tests digital health app for surgery patients

December 18, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Cybersecurity & Technology

The Pip Care app, developed by a company spun out of the Pittsburgh-based health system, improves care management for patients before and after surgery. ...

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CMS revises COVID-19 vaccination memos to combine survey instructions as infection rates decline

October 27, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

CMS has combined three earlier Quality, Safety & Oversight Group (QSO) memos on required COVID-19 vaccinations into a single memo, with revisions to note how surveyors should cite noncompliance. ...

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13.9% of adults who test positive for COVID-19 experience long COVID, study finds

December 18, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety

The World Health Organization has defined long COVID as a syndrome that occurs three months after a COVID-19 infection, with symptoms that last for at least two months. Long COVID symptoms include cou...

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Want to solve your workforce shortages? Grow your own staff

December 18, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Healthcare Staff, Workplace safety

Many healthcare executives say workforce shortages are their top challenge as the country emerges from the crisis phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Health systems, hospitals, and physician practices ...

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RSV rates rise, pose threat to children

December 18, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety

“Tripledemic” is not a word anyone wanted in their lexicon, but it’s one being used to describe a triple threat of respiratory disease this winter—COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus ...

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It’s official: CMS creates new rural emergency hospital provider type

November 04, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS has finalized the rural emergency hospital (REH) as a new provider type in the hopes of helping rural areas keep much needed healthcare services as hospitals continue to close. ...

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Social determinants of health measures, baked into the EHR, are improving patient care

December 18, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Health Equity, Cybersecurity & Technology

A Florida health system is putting social determinants of health (SDOH) right into the electronic health record problem list, where doctors can see and act on them. Spearheading this initiative is ...

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What’s wrong in this photograph?

November 10, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

What’s the problem in this photograph and how would you fix it if you were to find this in your hospital’s kitchen? ...

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Mass General Brigham issues patient code of conduct

December 18, 2025

Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

With violence against healthcare workers reaching epic proportions, Mass General Brigham Hospital has launched a campaign to curb abuse from patients and visitors. Under a newly imposed Patient Cod...

ECRI: Healthcare organizations must address racist behavior in the workplace

UPMC tests digital health app for surgery patients

CMS revises COVID-19 vaccination memos to combine survey instructions as infection rates decline

13.9% of adults who test positive for COVID-19 experience long COVID, study finds

Want to solve your workforce shortages? Grow your own staff

RSV rates rise, pose threat to children

It’s official: CMS creates new rural emergency hospital provider type

Social determinants of health measures, baked into the EHR, are improving patient care

What’s wrong in this photograph?

Mass General Brigham issues patient code of conduct

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