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Plan care for dialysis patients and others stranded in a disaster

February 13, 2026

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

Work with your regional healthcare coalition and Health and Human Services (HHS) to identify the number of dialysis and other vulnerable patients who might show up needing critical services if water a...

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How physicians can support better technology development

February 13, 2026

Quality & Errors, Cybersecurity & Technology

Healthcare technology innovation is moving faster than ever as technology companies push tremendous disruptions into this critical sector. However, these disruptions often fail to acknowledge existing...

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Infection prevention: Looking to the future while tending to the present

February 13, 2026

Health Equity, Patient Safety

The challenges facing infection preventionists (IP) were already immense before the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year. Now the demand for their expertise is higher than ever, says Devin Jopp, EdD, MS, w...

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Coronavirus pandemic stressors impacting careers of healthcare workers

February 13, 2026

Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

The coronavirus pandemic has led many healthcare workers, particularly women with children, to consider leaving the workforce or reducing work hours, a recent study found. In March 2020, 42% of U.S...

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Water is wet: How about your ORs?

February 13, 2026

Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Howdy folks, as our friends from Chicago return to the field, a couple of items have come to my attention that I felt were worth sharing. There’s also...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Taking aim at sepsis: Targeted solutions tool

February 13, 2026

Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

The Center has been working on sepsis care improvement since 2012. To that end, it’s created a Reducing Sepsis Mortality Targeted Solutions Tool (TST) that makes customized recommendations for healthc...

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TJC adds IM standard to address CMS rule on e-notification

February 13, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Update policies and check with your information technology (IT) team to ensure you are meeting CMS requirements for electronic medical record (EMR) interoperability that were outlined in two final rul...

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New survey reveals how hospital supply chains affect nurses, patient safety, and margins

February 13, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

Of 100 nurses surveyed—50 nurse leaders and 50 frontline nurses—in February, 86% said they leave procedures to hunt for supplies at least occasionally, according to the report. Some 25% said they don’...

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Preventing opioid overprescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic

February 13, 2026

Infection Control, Quality & Errors

The U.S. has wrestled with the demons of the opioid epidemic for decades, and even a global pandemic can’t stop that. But so much has changed during the past year in terms of healthcare. The use of op...

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FDA says to decrease reuse of devices, CMS removes some blanket waivers

April 09, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Be aware that as COVID-19 cases decline and vaccination rates climb, the emergency waivers and measures approved to get through the public health emergency will be changing. ...

Plan care for dialysis patients and others stranded in a disaster

How physicians can support better technology development

Infection prevention: Looking to the future while tending to the present

Coronavirus pandemic stressors impacting careers of healthcare workers

Water is wet: How about your ORs?

Taking aim at sepsis: Targeted solutions tool

TJC adds IM standard to address CMS rule on e-notification

New survey reveals how hospital supply chains affect nurses, patient safety, and margins

Preventing opioid overprescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic

FDA says to decrease reuse of devices, CMS removes some blanket waivers

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