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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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The 12 days of Christmas: Gifts we’d like to give healthcare this year

November 26, 2019

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

We’ve thought of some gifts we’d like to bestow upon the busy healthcare clinic workers in the country—if we had the power to do so. ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Kill complexity, save lives

November 19, 2019

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

“When you start requiring silly things, and we think it’s silly and doesn’t make clinical sense, it’s not sustainable. And a process that’s not sustainable is an unsafe process.” ...

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Use data transparency with IC outcomes to engage staff

November 19, 2019

Leadership & Finance, Quality & Errors

Engage staff in fighting hospital-acquired conditions by sharing data on infection prevention and other surveillance programs tracking patient harm ...

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Use new delays to catch up to more stringent USP requirements

November 19, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

While the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) announced another round of delays in September in implementing new requirements for pharmaceutical compounding, your local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) may sti...

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Florida storms: Flip phone training and other lessons learned from hurricanes past

November 19, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

As Hurricane Dorian gained strength in the Atlantic in late August, hospitals and other healthcare organizations in Florida and other parts of the southern U.S. prepared for what then appeared would b...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Q&A: The Impact of To Err is Human at 20

February 16, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

November 29 marks the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human, which flipped conventional ideas about medical errors and prevention on their head and started the modern pa...

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Indiana Hospital: Sterilization Issue Put 1,200 Patients at Risk of Infection

November 26, 2019

Infection Control

Patients who underwent surgery at Goshen (Indiana) Hospital between April 1 and September 30 may have been exposed to dangerous diseases after a breakdown in the facility’s surgical instrument sterili...

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, December 2019

December 02, 2019

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, December 2019

December 02, 2019

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Subscribers, download this month's full PSMJ newsletter ...

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Use checklist to help staff clear areas to protect at-risk patients

February 16, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Ligature risk tops the list of problems cited by TJC surveyors under one of the most frequently cited standards, EC.02.06.01. ...

The 12 days of Christmas: Gifts we’d like to give healthcare this year

Kill complexity, save lives

Use data transparency with IC outcomes to engage staff

Use new delays to catch up to more stringent USP requirements

Florida storms: Flip phone training and other lessons learned from hurricanes past

Q&A: The Impact of To Err is Human at 20

Indiana Hospital: Sterilization Issue Put 1,200 Patients at Risk of Infection

Inside Accreditation and Quality, December 2019

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, December 2019

Use checklist to help staff clear areas to protect at-risk patients

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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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