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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Soap vs. superbugs

June 21, 2026

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Bathe patients with chlorhexidine soap to stop drug-resistant infections ...

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CMS eliminates 2nd survey for psychiatric hospitals, to merge B-tags into SOMA

June 21, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS announced it is combining the interpretive guidelines that its surveyors use for psychiatric hospitals into the main Appendix A for hospitals, eliminating the need for double survey visits. ...

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CMS updates its surveyors’ manual for the first time in over a year

June 21, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS is revising its State Operations Manual (SOM) for hospitals in one of the first significant overhauls in more than a year. But be aware that the changes are not fully online yet and more revisions...

Mac's Safety Space

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I sit at my table and wage war on myself—and earn an OSHA citation!

February 10, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While I have a sneaking suspicion that this Top 10 list doesn’t change a whole lot from year to year (other than position in the hierarchy), I thought...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Close the loop on test results

February 04, 2020

Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Brian Ward In December, The Joint Commission (TJC) released Quick Safety Issue 52: Advancing Safety With Closed-Loop Communication of Test Results. Closed-loop communication means that every tes...

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TJC to update medication orders requirements with more detail

February 04, 2020

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

By A.J. Plunkett The Joint Commission (TJC) is revising its medication management standards, requiring clear and accurate medication orders—catching up to what surveyors have been scoring for some ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Cardinal Health begins recall of contaminated surgical gowns

February 04, 2020

Infection Control, Patient Safety

By John Commins Cardinal Health this week said it has launched "two voluntary field actions" for Cardinal Health Presource® Procedure Packs containing gowns that were part of its recent recall of A...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Rapidly spreading Wuhan coronavirus could become pandemic soon

February 04, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

By Jay Kumar As the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak moves into its third week, infectious disease experts believe it’s well on its way to becoming a pandemic. Extensive travel restrictions and quarantin...

Mac's Safety Space

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What we all want: If everything is priority one, then everything is priority none

February 03, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As our friends from Chicago appear to be embarking in earnest on their charge to be as unpredictable as possible (I know of one instance in which a tr...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Report: Follow Protocols to Help Fight Opioid Addictions

June 21, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

A new report from medical liability insurer Coverys takes a close look at the growing epidemic of opioid addictions and the high-severity injuries, including death, that the problem causes every year....

Soap vs. superbugs

CMS eliminates 2nd survey for psychiatric hospitals, to merge B-tags into SOMA

CMS updates its surveyors’ manual for the first time in over a year

I sit at my table and wage war on myself—and earn an OSHA citation!

Close the loop on test results

TJC to update medication orders requirements with more detail

Cardinal Health begins recall of contaminated surgical gowns

Rapidly spreading Wuhan coronavirus could become pandemic soon

What we all want: If everything is priority one, then everything is priority none

Report: Follow Protocols to Help Fight Opioid Addictions

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