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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Study: Negligible infection risk from reused pacemakers, ICDs

February 15, 2026

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Ideally, there should be no need to reuse cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIED) like pacemakers and defibrillators—every patient should be able to get a new one. But that is not always ...

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Behavioral health in the time of COVID: Tips for handling patients’ stress

February 15, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

Working with behavioral health patients is a challenge at any time. During an infectious disease outbreak such as COVID-19, the task is magnified by stress, the need for social isolation, infection co...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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EHRs Fail to Detect Up to One-third of Medication Errors

February 15, 2026

Quality & Errors

“EHRs are supposed to ensure safe use of medications in hospitals,” said study corresponding author David C. Classen, MD, a professor of internal medicine at U of U Health. “They’re not doing that.” ...

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FDA bans certain respirators from being decontaminated, reused

February 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Chinese-made N95 masks and respirators with exhalation tubes among banned types. ...

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Nearly 600, and counting, U.S. Health Workers Have Died Of COVID-19

February 15, 2026

Workplace safety, Infection Control

The tally includes doctors, nurses and paramedics, as well as crucial healthcare support staff such as hospital janitors, administrators and nursing home workers, who have put their own lives at risk ...

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TJC, other AOs to change survey focus in wake of pandemic

February 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

As regular survey activities slowly resume, expect The Joint Commission (TJC) and other accrediting organizations (AO) to follow CMS in focusing on infection control and taking a detailed look at how ...

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Excerpt: Role of Leaders

February 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

The following excerpt comes from of the HCPro book, Chapter Leader’s Guide to Emergency Management, Second Edition: During a crisis, many people placed in leadership positions often resort to an autho...

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White House urges healthcare facilities to open, but safely

June 10, 2020

Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Trump administration is urging healthcare facilities to resume elective surgeries, diagnostic tests, and other non-emergency care and is encouraging patients to tend to healthcare needs postponed ...

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How NYC Health + Hospitals Trained 20K Staffers to Combat COVID-19

February 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety, Infection Control

This spring, NYC H+H, with its 11 acute-care hospitals and three field hospitals established to handle patients infected with COVID-19, was at the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States. ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Contact-free continuous monitoring

February 15, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

How Arnot Ogden Medical Center protects patients from clinical deterioration ...

Study: Negligible infection risk from reused pacemakers, ICDs

Behavioral health in the time of COVID: Tips for handling patients’ stress

EHRs Fail to Detect Up to One-third of Medication Errors

FDA bans certain respirators from being decontaminated, reused

Nearly 600, and counting, U.S. Health Workers Have Died Of COVID-19

TJC, other AOs to change survey focus in wake of pandemic

Excerpt: Role of Leaders

White House urges healthcare facilities to open, but safely

How NYC Health + Hospitals Trained 20K Staffers to Combat COVID-19

Contact-free continuous monitoring

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