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Part 2: Heidi Raines on sustaining a culture of safety

December 19, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

This is the second part of our interview with Heidi Raines, the CEO and founder of Performance Health Partners and author of “Shared Voices: A Framework for Patient and Employee Safety in Healthcare“ ...

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Surgeon general: Loneliness just as harmful as smoking

December 19, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Health Equity

The report makes the case with hard science and research that loneliness not only impacts a patient’s mental health, but their physical health as well, including: 29% increased risk of heart dis...

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Q&A: Healthcare-associated infections remain after the pandemic

December 19, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety

When the Leapfrog Safety Group published its annual list of Hospital Safety Grades, they announced they’d found a significant increase in healthcare-associated infections (HAI) during the COVID-19 pan...

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Safety lessons healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 2

December 19, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Airlines and aviation have often been held up as standards for safety, but can what they do apply to hospitals, clinics, labs, and other healthcare organizations? This is Part 2 of our interview wi...

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Improving behavioral healthcare: Examples of unnecessary rules

December 19, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

“One thing behavioral healthcare can do is get rid of unnecessary rules—rules that have been developed for staff convenience or organizational reasons like cost, rather than for patient comfort and ca...

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Q&A: How ECRI makes its top patient safety concerns list

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Given the scale and scope of ECRI’s reach, having a patient safety issue end up on its top 10 list ensures that the issue will be seen by a lot of people—and promotes greater efforts to address it. To...

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Safety lessons that healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 1

December 19, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

There are key differences between healthcare and aviation, says Jeffrey Salvon-Harman, MD, CPE, CPPS, vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and an aviation safety expert. Bu...

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Greenhouse gas emissions: The carbon is coming from inside the hospital

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Health Equity

The American healthcare sector produces an estimated 8.5% of the country’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and accounts for 25% of global health sector emissions—the highest proportion attributab...

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Separating fact from myth about substance abuse disorder

December 19, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health

Substance abuse and addiction are some of humanity’s oldest public health challenges. Much has been learned about the causes and treatment of substance abuse in the 8,000 years since Sumerians wrote o...

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Improving customer service in behavioral health

December 19, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

While the term might invoke images of restaurants, hotels, and store clerks rather than healthcare, customer service is about working with stressed, unhappy, or potentially violent customers/patients ...

Part 2: Heidi Raines on sustaining a culture of safety

Surgeon general: Loneliness just as harmful as smoking

Q&A: Healthcare-associated infections remain after the pandemic

Safety lessons healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 2

Improving behavioral healthcare: Examples of unnecessary rules

Q&A: How ECRI makes its top patient safety concerns list

Safety lessons that healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 1

Greenhouse gas emissions: The carbon is coming from inside the hospital

Separating fact from myth about substance abuse disorder

Improving customer service in behavioral health

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