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Medical Environment Update

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What’s next for safety?

June 07, 2022

Physical environment, Workplace safety

Some safety professionals are lucky enough to be able to constantly focus on their safety program. But in many organizations, managing safety is not a full-time job. Often, safety professionals must o...

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Assessing violence potential for behavioral health patients in times of duress

June 07, 2022

Patient Safety, Workplace safety

May served as Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s also a good reminder to healthcare security professionals that security is paramount when it comes to behavioral and mental health patients throughout...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Crafting an effective health message, Part 1: Applying lessons learned from HIV prevention

June 07, 2022

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

It’s the 21st century, and the importance of communication cannot be understated. Crafting an effective message is key for so many patient safety and accreditation compliance challenges, whether it’s ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Surgeon general releases advisory on health worker burnout

June 07, 2022

Patient Safety, Workplace safety

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, recently released an advisory to address a growing threat of health worker burnout. The advisory provides recommendations for how to address this issue, with ste...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS seeks comment on HAC measures collection, restraint-related death reporting

June 10, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS wants to suspend calculations of hospital penalties for hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) for fiscal 2025 year because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as revise the information it ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Doing the math in your head – risk assessments in your own house

June 13, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Behavioral & Mental Health

Lately it seems that I’ve been running into risk assessments that “feel” more like incomplete thoughts in that all the risks within the assessed environment are not represented. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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ACHC annual report highlights environment of care deficiencies

June 14, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

Better environmental rounds was a chief recommendation for acute care and critical access hospitals who had maintenance problems with their equipment as well as issues with air supply and return vents...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Investments in hospital security are top of mind following mass shootings

February 12, 2026

Workplace safety

Security has always been a priority for healthcare leaders but in the wake of the mass shooting at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital that left four people dead, and a second hospital shooting that occurred ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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TJC seeing progress meeting maternal health standards, but work remains

June 14, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety

Even if your facility does not regularly handle labor and delivery, be sure to include the emergency department (ED) in planning and education to address problems such as maternal hemorrhage and sever...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Health system and hospital peer network tackles health equity

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Health Equity

A health equity initiative launched by the American Medical Association, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and The Joint Commission is designed to capitalize on peer learning at health systems and hospi...

What’s next for safety?

Assessing violence potential for behavioral health patients in times of duress

Crafting an effective health message, Part 1: Applying lessons learned from HIV prevention

Surgeon general releases advisory on health worker burnout

CMS seeks comment on HAC measures collection, restraint-related death reporting

Doing the math in your head – risk assessments in your own house

ACHC annual report highlights environment of care deficiencies

Investments in hospital security are top of mind following mass shootings

TJC seeing progress meeting maternal health standards, but work remains

Health system and hospital peer network tackles health equity

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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