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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Establish monkeypox infection control team, monitor community outbreaks

July 25, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

Establish a monkeypox emerging infectious disease team now that all but six states are reporting confirmed cases of the disease, which has been declared a global health emergency. ...

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Use CMS memo on emergency abortions to educate staff on EMTALA obligations

July 26, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety

Use the July 11 CMS memo reminding hospitals of their obligations under the federal EMTALA law as a good opportunity to review policies and to educate doctors, nurses, and other personnel on requireme...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Getting ready for the Life Safety survey: Tips from experts

July 26, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

Here are some tips from various experts to ensure a successful Life Safety survey. ...

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Researchers find decreased in-hospital adverse events from 2010 to 2019

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

In the past decade, the annual rates for in-hospital adverse events decreased for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, major surgical procedures, and all other conditions, a new rese...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS revises methodology for calculating staffing star rating

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Effective with the July 2022 refresh, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is revising the methodology for calculating the staffing star rating. These measures, which have been po...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Profile: Margarette Osias, patient navigator

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Health Equity

Margarette Osias is a PN and certified translator for the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition (DBCC). For the past three years, Osias has helped patients schedule and obtain screenings, find primary care...

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Examining The Joint Commission WPV requirements

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety

Lauris Freidenfelds, senior project manager for Telgian Engineering & Consulting, says there are many takeaways from the new and revised standards out of TJC: WPV prevention is an organizat...

Medical Environment Update

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Electronic peer-to-peer consulting to combat long wait times

February 12, 2026

Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff, Cybersecurity & Technology

Statistically, the longer a patient waits to see a specialist, the more likely they are to fall off their care plan or experience additional complications. And wait times continue to increase; by some...

Mac's Safety Space

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When do you stop – time and the art of the risk assessment…

August 01, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

If one calibrates an instrument, then one is behooved to calibrate the instrument used to calibrate the initial instrument. Then one is behooved to calibrate the instrument used to calibrate the instr...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Use COVID-19 lessons to inform monkeypox action plan

August 02, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

With monkeypox cases climbing in each state, sometimes dramatically, hospitals should be creating and implementing a plan that includes education of both staff and patients, say experts. ...

Establish monkeypox infection control team, monitor community outbreaks

Use CMS memo on emergency abortions to educate staff on EMTALA obligations

Getting ready for the Life Safety survey: Tips from experts

Researchers find decreased in-hospital adverse events from 2010 to 2019

CMS revises methodology for calculating staffing star rating

Profile: Margarette Osias, patient navigator

Examining The Joint Commission WPV requirements

Electronic peer-to-peer consulting to combat long wait times

When do you stop – time and the art of the risk assessment…

Use COVID-19 lessons to inform monkeypox action plan

Resource/w tools selected

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