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Q&A: What hands-on security interventions are acceptable?

December 18, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

by A.J. Plunkett (aplunkett@decisionhealth.com) Last fall, as CMS and accrediting organizations increased their scrutiny of how hospitals address suicide risk, the question of whether security or p...

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, November 2020

December 18, 2025

Patient Safety

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Saving money and water in healthcare

November 03, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors

With more droughts and heat waves expected in upcoming years, it’s time for hospitals and clinics to be more water-conscious Climate change is making the world hotter and drier, with more intense h...

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Patient safety initiatives for blood clot prevention

December 18, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

With the coronavirus pandemic heightening the focus on patient care, we’re highlighting patient safety in hospitals. A top way to avoid unnecessary complications and deaths is to work on preventing bl...

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Earthquake safety for hospitals: Before, during, and after

December 18, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

While many view earthquakes as a West Coast issue, the truth is that 45 states and U.S. territories are at moderate to high risk for earthquakes. Some of this risk is from natural features like fault ...

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Q&A: Hand hygiene compliance during (and after) COVID-19

December 18, 2025

Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Without addressing the root causes of hand hygiene noncompliance before COVID-19, facilities will fall back into bad patterns after the pandemic says Klaus Nether, DHS, CSSMBB, the executive director ...

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, December 2020

December 18, 2025

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

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Relying on “old school” methods during a ransomware attack

December 18, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

When your facility can’t access its medical records, operate its equipment, and properly care for patients, that’s not a problem—it’s an emergency, said Kelly Proctor, CHFM, CHSP, CHOP, director of op...

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Report: After 20 years, why isn’t patient safety better?

December 18, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

“Despite concerted efforts to improve patient safety over the past 20 years, patients continue to experience high-severity injury outcomes,” wrote lead author Ann Burke, RN, CPHRM, CPPS, senior direct...

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Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

December 18, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

On September 11, 2020, an elderly woman in Germany was rushed to the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm. However, when the ambulance arrived at UKD, they disc...

Q&A: What hands-on security interventions are acceptable?

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, November 2020

Saving money and water in healthcare

Patient safety initiatives for blood clot prevention

Earthquake safety for hospitals: Before, during, and after

Q&A: Hand hygiene compliance during (and after) COVID-19

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, December 2020

Relying on “old school” methods during a ransomware attack

Report: After 20 years, why isn’t patient safety better?

Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

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