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Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Survey readiness: Review your compliance against top EC, LS challenges

April 18, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In preparing for your upcoming survey, review how your facility stands up to the top 10 most challenging standards within the physical environment outlined by Herman A. McKenzie, MBA, CHSP, director o...

Mac's Safety Space

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Deck the halls with boughs of noncombustible construction

October 25, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant It hardly seems possible that we are rushing headlong into the depths of November (October being almost as I write this), though I will note (as you ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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HFAP finds deficiencies in credentialing, competency assessments

April 18, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Accreditation survey results released by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care’s (ACHC) HFAP brand show that ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) continue to struggle with their credentialing and p...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: Reducing patient falls, saving money

April 18, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

An unwanted outcome when moving or lifting patients is the risk of falls. Despite best efforts, hundreds of thousands of patients fall in hospitals every year, with 30%–35% sustaining an injury. S...

Mac's Safety Space

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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the safety way

April 18, 2026

Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Thought I’d something more to say… Beware the alligator roll: One quick item for your consideration (I’ve been “sitting” on this one for a little ...

Mac's Safety Space

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I think the people down the hall know who we are…

November 29, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As we start moving (in what is likely to be a sprint) towards the end of the year, a couple of items for your consideration. First up, in the Decem...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Substance abuse treatment expert on overdoses: ‘You have a recipe for disaster’

April 18, 2026

Quality & Errors

With overdose deaths reaching a historic level, the co-founder and CEO of a substance abuse treatment organization says medical interventions must be the top priority. Earlier this month, the Cente...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Complex healthcare systems present opportunities for optimization

April 18, 2026

Quality & Errors

Workflow is a set of tasks grouped into processes that require the interaction of people and resources to accomplish defined goals. There are methodologies to carefully examine systems, and more speci...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Labor department requests vaccine rule reinstatement

April 18, 2026

Infection Control

Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) November 23 asked a federal appeals court to lift judicial restrictions on an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) emergency temporary ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Stay Centered and Carry On: PHE likely to persist through 2021!

April 18, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As any of the Peanuts gang might opine: AAUGH! In a letter to the governors, Norris Cochran, the acting secretary of HHS, indicated that it had bee...

Survey readiness: Review your compliance against top EC, LS challenges

Deck the halls with boughs of noncombustible construction

HFAP finds deficiencies in credentialing, competency assessments

Q&A: Reducing patient falls, saving money

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the safety way

I think the people down the hall know who we are…

Substance abuse treatment expert on overdoses: ‘You have a recipe for disaster’

Complex healthcare systems present opportunities for optimization

Labor department requests vaccine rule reinstatement

Stay Centered and Carry On: PHE likely to persist through 2021!

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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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