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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Nursing homes found to be underreporting pressure ulcers

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety

For hospital admissions claims with pressure ulcers as the primary diagnosis, 22.4% of them weren’t reported by the nursing homes. For those claims with pressure ulcers as the secondary diagnosis, 45%...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Addressing antimicrobial resistance following COVID-19

February 12, 2026

Infection Control, Quality & Errors

Before COVID-19, deaths from antimicrobial resistance were headed in the right direction, decreasing by nearly 30% in hospitals between 2012 and 2017. But in 2020, resistant hospital-onset infections ...

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Putting TJC workplace violence prevention training updates into practice

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

This month, we continue our review of The Joint Commission’s new and revised workplace violence (WPV) prevention requirements effective January 1, 2022. The Joint Commission issued three new elements ...

Medical Environment Update

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Care coordination and the labor shortage: How we can prepare

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff

Today’s care coordination is often a manual and time-consuming process that depends on hard-copy patient lists, notes, and other physical documentation. Improving this state of affairs has historicall...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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UPDATED: Texas judge rules against HHS guidance regarding EMTALA and abortions

September 06, 2022

(Updated to include latest guidance from CMS in QSO-22-23-ALL) In granting a temporary injunction, a federal judge in Texas ruled that physicians cannot be required to perform abortions under the E...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Updated 2022 TJC Survey Activity Guide is online

August 25, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The long-awaited update to The Joint Commission’s (TJC) Survey Activity Guide for hospitals is finally online. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Point me at the sky and let it fly...

August 29, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

A couple of short-ish items for the week as we start to clear the decks for the headlong rush into the autumnal portion of 2022 (I know there’s still a month of summer left, but the season does seem t...

Mac's Safety Space

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The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning…

September 05, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Policies and Procedures

As we slide from the 8th month to the 9th, I’m hoping that you have/had the opportunity to take some time over the Labor Day weekend for some rest and relaxation. While it is certain that exhaustion i...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Q&A: Safe handling of monkeypox in the laboratory

August 29, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Laboratory Safety

In a Q&A, Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, laboratory safety officer for multihospital system Sentara Healthcare in Virginia, discusses lab safety and the handling of monkeypox specimens. ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Addressing bad outcomes with a disclosure process

August 29, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Policies and Procedures

Medical errors can be devastating. For patients and their families, an error can be a life-altering or even fatal event. But for physicians and other healthcare professionals, a medical error can have...

Nursing homes found to be underreporting pressure ulcers

Addressing antimicrobial resistance following COVID-19

Putting TJC workplace violence prevention training updates into practice

Care coordination and the labor shortage: How we can prepare

UPDATED: Texas judge rules against HHS guidance regarding EMTALA and abortions

Updated 2022 TJC Survey Activity Guide is online

Point me at the sky and let it fly...

The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning…

Q&A: Safe handling of monkeypox in the laboratory

Addressing bad outcomes with a disclosure process

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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