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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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The power of the patient navigator

February 17, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Health Equity

If you work in healthcare every day, the system will probably feel like second nature to you. You know the available resources and where to get answers. You know what forms are needed for procedure A ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS tweaks COVID-19 vaccine memos to clarify survey process

April 06, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Surveyors on site for a Life Safety Code®-only complaint or LSC-only follow-up survey are not expected to check for compliance with the new requirements to vaccinate healthcare workers against COVID-1...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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COVID-19 PHE is renewed through July 15

April 08, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS continues to gradually end some emergency blanket waivers allowed under the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) for some providers, but for now the 1135 waivers remain intact for acute care and...

Mac's Safety Space

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Don’t think they don’t see this stuff too…

April 11, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While I don’t doubt that we will revisit this topic at some point in the not-too-distant future, there’s been a confluence (small pun intended) of rec...

Medical Environment Update

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March MEU Quiz

February 17, 2026

Laboratory Safety, Quality & Errors

Did you read the stories from the March MEU, and how well do you remember it? Test your knowledge with this short quiz. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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“Criminalizing medical error creates environments and cultures of fear,” says Institute for Healthcare Improvement

February 17, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Quality & Errors

Preventing medical errors requires people to come forward when those errors are made, IHI says. Otherwise, how else will healthcare organizations know there’s a problem? But nurses and other healthcar...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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RaDonda Vaught sentenced to 3-year probation for medication error death

February 17, 2026

Health Equity, Quality & Errors

RaDonda Vaught, the former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse who accidentally gave a patient a fatal dose of the wrong medicine, was sentenced to three years of supervised probation with no j...

Medical Environment Update

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Six strategies to strengthen post-COVID infection prevention

February 17, 2026

Infection Control

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a great many things for healthcare, but it may have a particularly lasting impact on infection prevention programs. As the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology comment...

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Hot topics for facility directors, staying on top of document management, more

February 17, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

Lance Woolf, MBA, CHSP, former life safety surveyor for The Joint Commission, knows what’s top of mind for those charged with healthcare facilities management. Woolf currently is the director of life ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Psychological damage: IHI on criminalization of medical error

February 17, 2026

Health Equity, Quality & Errors

Update: On May 13, Vaught was sentenced to three years probation The tragedy of medical errors is twofold—that a caregiver unintentionally harms someone they were trying to help, and that the erro...

The power of the patient navigator

CMS tweaks COVID-19 vaccine memos to clarify survey process

COVID-19 PHE is renewed through July 15

Don’t think they don’t see this stuff too…

March MEU Quiz

“Criminalizing medical error creates environments and cultures of fear,” says Institute for Healthcare Improvement

RaDonda Vaught sentenced to 3-year probation for medication error death

Six strategies to strengthen post-COVID infection prevention

Hot topics for facility directors, staying on top of document management, more

Psychological damage: IHI on criminalization of medical error

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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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