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Q&A: How to prevent hospital-acquired pressure ulcers/injuries

December 18, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Each year, 2.5 million patients suffer from pressure ulcers and injuries, with 60,000 dying from complications. To put that into some context, in 2018 there were fewer suicide attempts (1.4 million) a...

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Telehealth visits skyrocket among Americans ages 50–80

December 18, 2025

Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology

The percentage of older adults who had ever participated in a telehealth visit rose from 4% in May 2019 to 30% in June 2020, according to the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging. ...

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COVID-19 and the Hierarchy of Controls

December 18, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety, Quality & Errors

With a spike in both COVID-19 and influenza cases expected this fall, many are reexamining and shoring up their infection control processes. Healthcare providers have already made several changes this...

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How remote patient monitoring can protect healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

December 18, 2025

Workplace safety, Infection Control

With healthcare workers and their loved ones at risk, provider organizations are looking for ways to leverage technology to keep their workers healthy while continuing to deliver essential healthcare ...

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, October 2020

December 18, 2025

Patient Safety

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

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Healthcare under fire: Treating patients during the 2020 wildfires

December 18, 2025

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

As of this September, 2020 has already been declared the worst wildfire season in U.S. history, with more fires possible all the way into December. Over 4.5 million acres have been burned in Californi...

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Q&A: Exits, slips, pipes, and evacuations in the snow

December 18, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

Winter snow, ice, and cold should be a few weeks away—but it’s 2020, so we shouldn’t take anything for granted. Regardless, hospitals and clinics should run through their annual winter checklists now....

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Keeping wildfire smoke out of your facility

December 18, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

With over 100 fires destroying entire towns and displacing hundreds of thousands of people, 2020 was one of the worst wildfire seasons on record for the West Coast (see Healthcare under fire: Treating...

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The difference between a COVID mask and a smoke mask

December 18, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, face masks have become ubiquitous (though occasionally controversial) in 2020—from N95 respirators to homemade masks made from bandanas and t-shirts. During the he...

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Assess your EVS program for infection control problems before surveyors show up

December 18, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Assess your environmental cleaning protocols, ensure staff are trained properly, and verify the effectiveness of both as CMS increases scrutiny of infection prevention and control during the coronavir...

Q&A: How to prevent hospital-acquired pressure ulcers/injuries

Telehealth visits skyrocket among Americans ages 50–80

COVID-19 and the Hierarchy of Controls

How remote patient monitoring can protect healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, October 2020

Healthcare under fire: Treating patients during the 2020 wildfires

Q&A: Exits, slips, pipes, and evacuations in the snow

Keeping wildfire smoke out of your facility

The difference between a COVID mask and a smoke mask

Assess your EVS program for infection control problems before surveyors show up

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