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Healthcare Safety Leader

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What’s up in 2022? New standards, recurring problems, and playing catchup

April 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In the upcoming year, surveys will include new standards, revised requirements, modified processes and procedures, and a continued focus on infection control and fire safety. However, none of that pro...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Federal rules on vaccinations supersede state or local orders

April 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

In case you missed it, here’s a compilation of breaking news from the Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center since Healthcare Safety Leader was last published. by A.J. Plunkett (aplunkett@decisi...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Answer to last issue’s hospital safety forensics photo question

April 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters

In the last Healthcare Safety Leader, we noted the caustic chemicals found in the basement of a hospital by Ernest E. Allen, ARM, CSP, CPHRM, CHFM, a former life safety surveyor and now Life Safety co...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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How many times a year should we train on oxygen transportation?

April 15, 2026

Fire & Life Safety, Quality & Errors

Q: We just had a CMS validation survey and received a finding under K-tag K-926 for not having good enough documentation of training on oxygen transportation. How many times a year do we have to give ...

Medical Environment Update

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OSHA extends public comment on COVID-19 vaccine rule

April 15, 2026

Infection Control, Workplace safety

Didn’t have time to gather your thoughts yet on OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring vaccination and testing for employers with 100 or more employees? You can still offer up your two ce...

Mac's Safety Space

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And ma in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled down…

December 29, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant For a long winter’s discussion of the The Joint Commission's new Emergency Management chapter (https://www.jointcommission.org/-/media/tjc/documents/s...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS says it will enforce staff vaccine mandate where it can

December 30, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By January 27, hospitals in half of the nation’s states must ensure that all staff have at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or have a qualified exemption, or face termination from the Medicare a...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Inside Accreditation & Quality, January 2022

April 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter Not a subscriber yet? Sign up for a Basic of Platinum membership to gain access to all Patient Safety Monitor Journal and Inside Accreditati...

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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, January 2022

April 15, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

HLSC Subscribers, download this month's full newsletter. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Healthcare Safety Leader, January 2022

April 15, 2026

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

Subscribers, download this month's full newsletter Not a subscriber yet? Sign up for a Basic of Platinum membership to gain access to all Patient Safety Monitor Journal, Inside Accreditation &amp...

What’s up in 2022? New standards, recurring problems, and playing catchup

Federal rules on vaccinations supersede state or local orders

Answer to last issue’s hospital safety forensics photo question

How many times a year should we train on oxygen transportation?

OSHA extends public comment on COVID-19 vaccine rule

And ma in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled down…

CMS says it will enforce staff vaccine mandate where it can

Inside Accreditation & Quality, January 2022

Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, January 2022

Healthcare Safety Leader, January 2022

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STET CMS & tools

OSHA Dental Facilities Update - November 2023

OSHA Medical Facilities Update - November 2023

Tab 2, Medical Facilities OSHA Manual- August 2023

Tab 2, Dental Facility OSHA Manual- August 2023

Chapter 2: Chapter Format and Tracer Planning