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Hospitals Scramble to Prioritize Which Workers Are First for COVID Shots

December 14, 2020

Infection Control

Days before the initial 6.4 million doses were to be released, hospitals across the country have been grappling with how to distribute the first scarce shots. ...

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Are you prepared? ECRI offers webcast on UK lessons learned in vaccine distribution

December 11, 2020

Infection Control

ECRI is gathering experts from the United Kingdom to offer insights on the distribution and administration of the COVID-19 vaccine for a webcast scheduled at noon Eastern time on Wednesday, December 1...

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Demand for COVID vaccines expected to get heated, and fast

February 14, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

With two promising vaccines primed for release, likely within weeks, experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even he...

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PSMF renews efforts to improve patient safety in hospitals

February 14, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

After several years of focusing on smaller improvements to eliminate preventable patient deaths, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) is thinking big. The group recently announced a new goal ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

February 14, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

On September 11, 2020, an elderly woman in Germany was rushed to the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm. However, when the ambulance arrived at UKD, they disc...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Report: After 20 years, why isn’t patient safety better?

February 14, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

“Despite concerted efforts to improve patient safety over the past 20 years, patients continue to experience high-severity injury outcomes,” wrote lead author Ann Burke, RN, CPHRM, CPPS, senior direct...

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TJC at ASHE: Water management standard combines old, new requirements

February 14, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Your facility will need diagrams or schematics of its water system and a way to address stagnant water under the new requirements set out by a new standard from The Joint Commission (TJC). The new Env...

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2021 promises changes and challenges as hospitals meet the PHE head on

February 14, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Infection Control

Expect emergency preparedness and infection control to remain front and center during accreditation and compliance surveys for the immediate future as 2021 starts much the way most of 2020 played out-...

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Virtual hospital expands inpatient capacity during coronavirus pandemic

February 14, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control

As the coronavirus pandemic rages nationwide during its third surge this year, resources are being strained at health systems and hospitals across the country. Virtual hospital at home programs have e...

Mac's Safety Space

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Someone’s in the kitchen, but there are no banjos involved

December 07, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In the never-ending quest for generating new and challenging survey findings, our friends in Chicago have thrown down the gauntlet (or perhaps more ap...

Hospitals Scramble to Prioritize Which Workers Are First for COVID Shots

Are you prepared? ECRI offers webcast on UK lessons learned in vaccine distribution

Demand for COVID vaccines expected to get heated, and fast

PSMF renews efforts to improve patient safety in hospitals

Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

Report: After 20 years, why isn’t patient safety better?

TJC at ASHE: Water management standard combines old, new requirements

2021 promises changes and challenges as hospitals meet the PHE head on

Virtual hospital expands inpatient capacity during coronavirus pandemic

Someone’s in the kitchen, but there are no banjos involved

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