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How to seize on opportunities to improve safety and patient experience

December 20, 2025

Quality & Errors

There are golden opportunities to improve patient safety and patient experience at healthcare organizations, a new top executive at Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Spectrum Health says. Spectrum Healt...

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Yes, you must open doors to unvaccinated surveyors

March 30, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Ready or not, yes, you must let surveyors on site at your hospital or other facilities even if they haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 yet. ...

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Full speed ahead: CMS resumes most surveys

March 26, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS surveyors could be on your doorstep tomorrow if you have faced a complaint in the last two months that has yet to be investigated. ...

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How to treat coronavirus patients in post-ICU care clinics

December 20, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Infection Control

Indiana University Health is using an ambulatory post-ICU care clinic to treat COVID-19 patients who survived ICU care and are experiencing coronavirus symptoms after hospital discharge. ...

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What you need to know about TJC's 2021 Survey Activity Guide

March 08, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Joint Commission's updated Survey Activity Guide is finally online. Here are some tips on what the changes mean for you. ...

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CDC alert: Screen for international travel as Ebola cases increase

March 03, 2021

Infection Control, Workplace safety

Review your infection control plan for Ebola now that the CDC is recommending that all U.S. healthcare settings should ask about international travel while screening patients and visitors for signs an...

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Rate our newsletters! What do you think about IAQ & PSMJ?

December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety

This is Brian Ward and A.J. Plunkett, editors of Patient Safety Monitor Journal and Inside Accreditation & Quality and we are looking for feedback on our newsletters: what we're doing well, what w...

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Handheld ultrasound boosts doctors’ pandemic toolkit

December 20, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Point-of-care ultrasound has found an important place in the toolkit of clinicians fighting the spread and effects of COVID-19, according to the chief innovation officer of Baltimore-based LifeBridge ...

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Study: Half of hospitalized coronavirus patients have symptoms 4 months after discharge

December 20, 2025

Infection Control

Many coronavirus patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infection experience significant respiratory, functional, and psychological symptoms four months after hospital discharge, a recent...

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TJC to begin unannounced survey visits again

March 10, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Joint Commission says it will start unannounced surveys again, as of March 15. ...

How to seize on opportunities to improve safety and patient experience

Yes, you must open doors to unvaccinated surveyors

Full speed ahead: CMS resumes most surveys

How to treat coronavirus patients in post-ICU care clinics

What you need to know about TJC's 2021 Survey Activity Guide

CDC alert: Screen for international travel as Ebola cases increase

Rate our newsletters! What do you think about IAQ & PSMJ?

Handheld ultrasound boosts doctors’ pandemic toolkit

Study: Half of hospitalized coronavirus patients have symptoms 4 months after discharge

TJC to begin unannounced survey visits again

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