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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Profile: Healthcare design with Angela Mazzi

August 14, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

While not the sole determinant of health, studies have found healthcare environments have some impact on patient outcomes. Namely, patient rooms and facilities designed with patient comfort in mind ca...

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HFAP report outlines deficiencies in CAH, acute care hospitals

August 14, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The following is a summary rundown of the top clinical deficiencies for acute care and critical access hospitals surveyed in 2020 by HFAP, as outlined in the accrediting organization’s 2021 HFAP Quali...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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TJC warns immediate threats to safety ‘spiking’ over single-use devices

September 15, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Check your emergency rooms, outpatient clinics and anywhere else where pandemic-related equipment shortages have forced your facility to go outside normal supply lines for replacement medical devices....

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CMS warns hospitals: Remember EMTALA obligations, particularly with pregnant patients

September 20, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS issues EMTALA warning to hospitals, while TJC reiterates surveys may be impacted by continuing public health emergency. ...

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Health systems and hospitals grappling with workforce shortages

August 14, 2026

Infection Control

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted workforce shortages at health systems and hospitals across the country. On Sept. 1, the American Nurses Association urged the federal Department of Health &amp...

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COVID-19: IHI tool helps to identify gaps in patient surge preparedness

August 14, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

If COVID-19 cases are rising in your area again and you’re seeking a fresh look at your pandemic response plan, download the free patient surge preparedness checklist by the Institute for Healthcare I...

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Eyewash stations, documentation biggest challenge for HFAP labs in 2020

August 14, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Clinical laboratories surveyed under HFAP standards in 2020 showed improvements over the top deficiencies identified in earlier years, in a time when “clinical laboratories in all settings managed hig...

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Jonathan Perlin named next president and CEO of The Joint Commission

September 23, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Board of Commissioners at The Joint Commission (TJC) has appointed Jonathan B. Perlin. MD, as the accrediting organization’s next president and CEO, effective March 1, 2022. Perlin currently is...

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Cleveland Clinic promotes coaching culture for physicians

August 14, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Cleveland Clinic has robust coaching programs for the Cleveland-based health system’s physicians. Coaching programs can help health systems address physician wellbeing and retention. The coaching p...

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COVID-19 cost U.S. 9 million years of life expectancy

August 14, 2026

Infection Control

The COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed more than 660,000 lives in the U.S. has also cut aggregate life expectancy here by more than 9 million years, according to a study published Monday in Annals of ...

Profile: Healthcare design with Angela Mazzi

HFAP report outlines deficiencies in CAH, acute care hospitals

TJC warns immediate threats to safety ‘spiking’ over single-use devices

CMS warns hospitals: Remember EMTALA obligations, particularly with pregnant patients

Health systems and hospitals grappling with workforce shortages

COVID-19: IHI tool helps to identify gaps in patient surge preparedness

Eyewash stations, documentation biggest challenge for HFAP labs in 2020

Jonathan Perlin named next president and CEO of The Joint Commission

Cleveland Clinic promotes coaching culture for physicians

COVID-19 cost U.S. 9 million years of life expectancy

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