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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Inform, reassure, and reduce anxiety during COVID-19

February 14, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

Here are areas where your facility can work to ease patients’ safety concerns during the pandemic. They come from Colleen McCrory, MBA, FACHE, a coach in Huron’s Studer Group advisory firm with 19 yea...

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CMS, CDC Create Provider Payment for COVID-19 Counseling

February 14, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Infection Control

Physicians and other healthcare providers will now be paid to counsel patients about the importance of self-isolation after testing for COVID-19, even before test results are known, the Centers for Me...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Money woes and distance: Patient stressors during the COVID-19 era

February 14, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

As of this writing, the novel 2019 coronavirus has infected over 4.6 million Americans and killed over 155,000. Unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression, and experts predict mas...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Will TJC get tougher? CMS okays AO status but outlines concerns

February 14, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Expect The Joint Commission (TJC) to get tougher on some areas of survey, particularly with the physical environment and off-campus facilities, and to change the level of detail in its daily briefing ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, August 2020

February 14, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Workplace safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, August 2020

February 14, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

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Mac's Safety Space

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Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any stranger…

August 03, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant But first (as promised), a word about fire drills (there will be more, maybe next week, depends on what comes flying over the transom…): About a month...

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Researchers Examine Death Risks for Coronavirus Patients in ICUs

February 14, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Infection Control

New research has linked several factors with risk of death in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Coronavirus fears drive medication adherence ups and downs

February 14, 2026

Patient Safety, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

The cost of poor medication adherence is tremendous—nearly $177 billion each year in direct and indirect healthcare costs—but the cost of nonadherence during the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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How to update your restraint and seclusion policy

February 14, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Leadership & Finance, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, CADC, ICRC, a national behavioral health consultant with years of experience in hospital settings and now the director of evidence-based practices and programs for W...

Inform, reassure, and reduce anxiety during COVID-19

CMS, CDC Create Provider Payment for COVID-19 Counseling

Money woes and distance: Patient stressors during the COVID-19 era

Will TJC get tougher? CMS okays AO status but outlines concerns

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, August 2020

Inside Accreditation and Quality, August 2020

Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any stranger…

Researchers Examine Death Risks for Coronavirus Patients in ICUs

Coronavirus fears drive medication adherence ups and downs

How to update your restraint and seclusion policy

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