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Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

On September 11, 2020, an elderly woman in Germany was rushed to the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm. However, when the ambulance arrived at UKD, they disc...

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Report: After 20 years, why isn’t patient safety better?

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

“Despite concerted efforts to improve patient safety over the past 20 years, patients continue to experience high-severity injury outcomes,” wrote lead author Ann Burke, RN, CPHRM, CPPS, senior direct...

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Relying on “old school” methods during a ransomware attack

December 19, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

When your facility can’t access its medical records, operate its equipment, and properly care for patients, that’s not a problem—it’s an emergency, said Kelly Proctor, CHFM, CHSP, CHOP, director of op...

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, December 2020

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

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Q&A: Hand hygiene compliance during (and after) COVID-19

December 19, 2025

Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Without addressing the root causes of hand hygiene noncompliance before COVID-19, facilities will fall back into bad patterns after the pandemic says Klaus Nether, DHS, CSSMBB, the executive director ...

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Earthquake safety for hospitals: Before, during, and after

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

While many view earthquakes as a West Coast issue, the truth is that 45 states and U.S. territories are at moderate to high risk for earthquakes. Some of this risk is from natural features like fault ...

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Keeping wildfire smoke out of your facility

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

With over 100 fires destroying entire towns and displacing hundreds of thousands of people, 2020 was one of the worst wildfire seasons on record for the West Coast (see Healthcare under fire: Treating...

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The difference between a COVID mask and a smoke mask

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, face masks have become ubiquitous (though occasionally controversial) in 2020—from N95 respirators to homemade masks made from bandanas and t-shirts. During the he...

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Assess your EVS program for infection control problems before surveyors show up

December 19, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Assess your environmental cleaning protocols, ensure staff are trained properly, and verify the effectiveness of both as CMS increases scrutiny of infection prevention and control during the coronavir...

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Q&A: Exits, slips, pipes, and evacuations in the snow

December 19, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

Winter snow, ice, and cold should be a few weeks away—but it’s 2020, so we shouldn’t take anything for granted. Regardless, hospitals and clinics should run through their annual winter checklists now....

Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

Report: After 20 years, why isn’t patient safety better?

Relying on “old school” methods during a ransomware attack

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, December 2020

Q&A: Hand hygiene compliance during (and after) COVID-19

Earthquake safety for hospitals: Before, during, and after

Keeping wildfire smoke out of your facility

The difference between a COVID mask and a smoke mask

Assess your EVS program for infection control problems before surveyors show up

Q&A: Exits, slips, pipes, and evacuations in the snow

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