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New IDSA President: ‘The COVID-19 pandemic Is not going anywhere fast’

February 13, 2026

Infection Control

The new president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) says his organization is focused mainly on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Daniel McQuillen, MD, took on the leading role at...

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‘Are you going to keep me safe?’ hospital workers sound alarm on rising violence

February 13, 2026

Workplace safety

The San Leandro Hospital emergency department, where nurse Mawata Kamara works, went into lockdown recently when a visitor, agitated about being barred from seeing a patient due to COVID-19 restrictio...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Cybersecurity is patient safety

February 13, 2026

Cybersecurity & Technology, Patient Safety

Cyberattacks target every industry all the time, and healthcare is no exception. According to a recent IBM study, the average cost per healthcare cyberattack is a hefty $7 million. Despite numbers lik...

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Titration, HLD and sterilization of medical devices among challenges

February 13, 2026

Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Not using or cleaning devices or equipment according to manufacturers’ instructions and improper management of medications were the top clinical compliance issues highlighted in the first Executive Br...

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U.S. prisons were COVID hothouses during pandemic first wave

February 13, 2026

Infection Control

Inmates in the nation’s prisons were more than three times as likely to contract COVID-19 and more than twice as likely to die from it during the first year of the pandemic, when compared with the ove...

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Improving healthcare during the post-COVID era

February 13, 2026

Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, has only ever wanted to serve in healthcare. Thirty years ago, she started a practice on the East Coast. In 1993, she joined Kaiser Permanente as a front-line internist. Over...

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Don’t gift surveyors the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of hazardous holiday decorations

October 08, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Fire & Life Safety

Has your staff started dragging out the holiday decorations yet? Yes, it’s time for you to be Scrooge and remind them that while decorations can be fun for patients they can also pose a deadly fire ha...

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Physician suicide: Overworked and feeling betrayed during the pandemic

February 13, 2026

Workplace safety, Behavioral & Mental Health

One of the more critical issues impacting healthcare providers today is physician suicides, discussed by University of Iowa professors Diane S. Rohlman, PhD, of the department of Occupational & En...

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Expect the pandemic to continue to impact survey activities for near future

February 13, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Check your emergency rooms, outpatient clinics, wound care clinics, ambulatory care sites, and anywhere else where pandemic-related equipment shortages have forced your facility to go outside normal s...

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How Nurses are Urging the Unvaccinated to Reconsider

February 13, 2026

Infection Control

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has launched Hear Us Out, a nationwide effort to show the COVID-19 pandemic from frontline nurses’ perspective and urge those who have yet to be...

New IDSA President: ‘The COVID-19 pandemic Is not going anywhere fast’

‘Are you going to keep me safe?’ hospital workers sound alarm on rising violence

Cybersecurity is patient safety

Titration, HLD and sterilization of medical devices among challenges

U.S. prisons were COVID hothouses during pandemic first wave

Improving healthcare during the post-COVID era

Don’t gift surveyors the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of hazardous holiday decorations

Physician suicide: Overworked and feeling betrayed during the pandemic

Expect the pandemic to continue to impact survey activities for near future

How Nurses are Urging the Unvaccinated to Reconsider

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