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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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HHS aims to reduce direct care staffing shortage through new initiatives

January 18, 2024

Healthcare Staff, Patient Safety

Personal care attendants, home health aides, and other direct care workers help older adults and people with disabilities to remain in their homes and communities....

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Understanding social determinants of health

April 29, 2024

Health Equity, Patient Safety

The history of SDOH reaches back to 1967, when the Whitehall study examined more than 17,500 male civil servants between the ages of 20 and 64 in London, England, analyzing data over a period of 10 ye...

Mac's Safety Space

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MRI safety—It’s everyone’s responsibility

February 10, 2026

Healthcare Staff, Physical environment

… whether they know it or not! ...

Medical Environment Update

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Safe use of compressed gases

February 10, 2026

Fire & Life Safety, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

Darryl saw the low CO2 level alarm on the microbiology incubator and went to change the tank in the nearby storage room. The valve cover seemed stuck on the replacement tank and Darryl was unable to r...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Educating staff about drug diversion

February 10, 2026

Healthcare Staff

Education of general staff about drug diversion is essential to any diversion program. Clinical staff are often unaware of the scope of the problem and what is at stake. Even in large facilities, staf...

Medical Environment Update

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Beyond qualifications: Integrating mental health into physician evaluations, care

April 29, 2024

Behavioral & Mental Health, Healthcare Staff

Should physicians with possible mental health issues be required to participate in specialized physician health programs? What programs are out there? What industry developments can medical staffs fol...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Risk reduction strategies contribute to continuous readiness

April 29, 2024

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

What is the best way to prepare for patients each and every day? The best way is to create a safe, effective, and efficient system for providing patient care. It is to become knowledgeable and identif...

Mac's Safety Space

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Compliance chickens and regulatory eggs

April 29, 2024

Workplace safety

But which came first? In the world of safety data, there is certainly a tendency to want to know what’s going on in that world, and oftentimes that knowledge comes tied to a Top (insert number here...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Follow these tips for before, during, and after next big storm

April 29, 2024

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Cybersecurity & Technology, Health Equity, Infection Control, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

The official start of hurricane season is almost here. Hurricanes, especially the monster storms, have taught American hospitals some big lessons, and if you haven’t put those lessons into your resili...

Mac's Safety Space

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Should we talk about the weather?

May 06, 2024

Climate Change, Environment and Facilities, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Physical environment

Having bopped around a fair amount of the nation over the last 6 months or so, I heard a fair number of stories from folks working in healthcare of the many and varied travails they faced during the w...

HHS aims to reduce direct care staffing shortage through new initiatives

Understanding social determinants of health

MRI safety—It’s everyone’s responsibility

Safe use of compressed gases

Educating staff about drug diversion

Beyond qualifications: Integrating mental health into physician evaluations, care

Risk reduction strategies contribute to continuous readiness

Compliance chickens and regulatory eggs

Follow these tips for before, during, and after next big storm

Should we talk about the weather?

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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

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