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Add sleep problems to the list of COVID-19 challenges for nurses

December 20, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

Working the front lines of the early COVID-19 pandemic led to sleepless nights, anxiety, and depression for more than half of nurses surveyed for a new study. “Nurses are already at risk for higher...

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CMS eases use of COVID-19 survey tool, visitor requirements

February 07, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS is lifting an almost two-year-old requirement for surveyors to use a COVID-19 focused infection control tool (FIC) as it reviews acute and continuing care facilities during surveys. Visitor restri...

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Opioid use disorder plays significant role in many sepsis cases

December 20, 2025

Infection Control, Quality & Errors

The Sepsis Alliance is highlighting the intersection of sepsis and opioid use disorders. Sepsis develops in response to infection, and can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death. Sepsis is th...

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TJC joins with clinical pathologist group to recognize top laboratories

January 28, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

by A.J. Plunkett (aplunkett@decisionhealth.com) The Joint Commission (TJC) is collaborating with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) to offer TJC-accredited hospital laboratories r...

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(Updated) Are your surveyors vaccinated? Probably, but please don’t ask

January 26, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS has officially put out guidance to its own state survey agencies that all its onsite surveyors should be fully vaccinated, and it expects the same of accrediting organizations (AOs), who are respo...

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Nursing suicide prevention model recognized as an edge runner by the American Academy of Nursing

December 20, 2025

Workplace safety, Behavioral & Mental Health

The Suicide Prevention in Nursing: Breaking the Silence model, inspired by the first national longitudinal study of U.S nurse suicide, has been recognized as an Academy Edge Runner by the American Aca...

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Delayed care linked to increase in NJ excess deaths during pandemic, report says

December 20, 2025

Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Delayed or deferred care likely contributed to excess deaths in New Jersey during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, a recent report from the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Center for Heal...

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Primary care sidelined in coronavirus pandemic response, study says

December 20, 2025

Patient Safety, Infection Control

During the coronavirus pandemic, the failure to elevate the role of primary care providers on the frontline alongside public health officials has resulted in several missed opportunities to respond to...

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CMS says it will enforce staff vaccine mandate where it can

December 30, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By January 27, hospitals in half of the nation’s states must ensure that all staff have at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or have a qualified exemption, or face termination from the Medicare a...

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As patients fell ill with COVID-19 inside hospitals, government oversight fell short

December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

One by one, the nurses taking care of actress Judi Evans at Riverside Community Hospital kept calling out sick. Patients were coughing as staffers wheeled the maskless soap opera star around the Ca...

Add sleep problems to the list of COVID-19 challenges for nurses

CMS eases use of COVID-19 survey tool, visitor requirements

Opioid use disorder plays significant role in many sepsis cases

TJC joins with clinical pathologist group to recognize top laboratories

(Updated) Are your surveyors vaccinated? Probably, but please don’t ask

Nursing suicide prevention model recognized as an edge runner by the American Academy of Nursing

Delayed care linked to increase in NJ excess deaths during pandemic, report says

Primary care sidelined in coronavirus pandemic response, study says

CMS says it will enforce staff vaccine mandate where it can

As patients fell ill with COVID-19 inside hospitals, government oversight fell short

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