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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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Patient safety initiatives for blood clot prevention

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

With the coronavirus pandemic heightening the focus on patient care, we’re highlighting patient safety in hospitals. A top way to avoid unnecessary complications and deaths is to work on preventing bl...

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Saving money and water in healthcare

November 03, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors

With more droughts and heat waves expected in upcoming years, it’s time for hospitals and clinics to be more water-conscious Climate change is making the world hotter and drier, with more intense h...

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, November 2020

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety

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Q&A: What hands-on security interventions are acceptable?

December 19, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

by A.J. Plunkett (aplunkett@decisionhealth.com) Last fall, as CMS and accrediting organizations increased their scrutiny of how hospitals address suicide risk, the question of whether security or p...

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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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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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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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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....

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Study: Using Bed Barriers Cuts Down on C. diff

December 19, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

A new study has achieved a reduction in Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a bacterial infection of the gastrointestinal system that affects up to 500,000 people annually in hospitals. The study, con...

Earthquake safety for hospitals: Before, during, and after

Patient safety initiatives for blood clot prevention

Saving money and water in healthcare

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, November 2020

Q&A: What hands-on security interventions are acceptable?

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

The difference between a COVID mask and a smoke mask

Keeping wildfire smoke out of your facility

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

Study: Using Bed Barriers Cuts Down on C. diff

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