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Cleveland Clinic promotes coaching culture for physicians

April 16, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Cleveland Clinic has robust coaching programs for the Cleveland-based health system’s physicians. Coaching programs can help health systems address physician wellbeing and retention. The coaching p...

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Jonathan Perlin named next president and CEO of The Joint Commission

September 23, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Board of Commissioners at The Joint Commission (TJC) has appointed Jonathan B. Perlin. MD, as the accrediting organization’s next president and CEO, effective March 1, 2022. Perlin currently is...

Mac's Safety Space

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As we relive our lives in what we tell you…

September 27, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While it is always my intent to be amazingly timely in posting things, sometimes items that I’ve earmarked for sharing end up languishing in my draft ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Eyewash stations, documentation biggest challenge for HFAP labs in 2020

April 16, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Clinical laboratories surveyed under HFAP standards in 2020 showed improvements over the top deficiencies identified in earlier years, in a time when “clinical laboratories in all settings managed hig...

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COVID-19: IHI tool helps to identify gaps in patient surge preparedness

April 16, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

If COVID-19 cases are rising in your area again and you’re seeking a fresh look at your pandemic response plan, download the free patient surge preparedness checklist by the Institute for Healthcare I...

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Health systems and hospitals grappling with workforce shortages

April 16, 2026

Infection Control

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted workforce shortages at health systems and hospitals across the country. On Sept. 1, the American Nurses Association urged the federal Department of Health &amp...

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TJC warns immediate threats to safety ‘spiking’ over single-use devices

September 15, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Check your emergency rooms, outpatient clinics and anywhere else where pandemic-related equipment shortages have forced your facility to go outside normal supply lines for replacement medical devices....

Mac's Safety Space

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The Matrix Unloaded…Overloaded: Somehow stuff keeps happening…

September 20, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Interesting read in the October 2021 Perspectives relative to some Life Safety chapter considerations that have earned a place in the Consistent Inter...

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CMS warns hospitals: Remember EMTALA obligations, particularly with pregnant patients

September 20, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS issues EMTALA warning to hospitals, while TJC reiterates surveys may be impacted by continuing public health emergency. ...

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Don’t let weighing in weigh you down…

September 14, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In what I would term an interesting move (I don’t know that I would go so far as to call it unprecedented, but it might well could be), our friends in...

Cleveland Clinic promotes coaching culture for physicians

Jonathan Perlin named next president and CEO of The Joint Commission

As we relive our lives in what we tell you…

Eyewash stations, documentation biggest challenge for HFAP labs in 2020

COVID-19: IHI tool helps to identify gaps in patient surge preparedness

Health systems and hospitals grappling with workforce shortages

TJC warns immediate threats to safety ‘spiking’ over single-use devices

The Matrix Unloaded…Overloaded: Somehow stuff keeps happening…

CMS warns hospitals: Remember EMTALA obligations, particularly with pregnant patients

Don’t let weighing in weigh you down…

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