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In a world of magnets and miracles: Shifting the sands of compliance

September 27, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant At the risk of engaging in non-sequiturial (which autocorrect keeps insisting should be non-equatorial) content, I want to touch on a couple of short ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Q&A: ISMP President Discusses Medication Safety

August 27, 2019

Quality & Errors

Editor’s note: In this interview, Michael R. Cohen, RPH, MS, ScD (hon.), DPS (hon.), FASHP, founder and president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses the current state of ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Meeting Legionella requirements: Examples from CMS

August 27, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Review and update your water management plan to include the latest guidelines by CMS and CDC. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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New Sentinel Event categories focus on Post-Discharge Suicides

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

While suicide overall often has been in the top sentinel events, this breakdown includes two categories that split suicide events into those involving an inpatient and events involving a patient withi...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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TJC returns focus to human trafficking

February 16, 2026

Patient Safety, Workplace safety

“The timing couldn’t be better to train staff to recognize these victims,” says TJC associate director Elizabeth Even, MSN, RN, CEN ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Think carefully before using security officers to monitor high-risk patients

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Policies and Procedures

Probably the best practice, however, is not to use them at all. ...

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Ensure compliance with EPA rule: Ban all sewering of hazardous waste drugs

February 16, 2026

A new EPA regulation banning the sewering of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals that goes into effect August 21. ...

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Would you believe there’s nothing up my sleeve?: Protective measures

August 20, 2019

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Caution: This is not a product endorsement, but rather an observation of a product that might, at times, sound a little endorse-y. I can be persuaded…...

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Don’t forget to leave room for amazement: The perils of occupational fatigue

August 14, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Healthcare Staff

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant If you’ll bear with me, friends, this week deals not so much with the harsh realities of our vocation, but with the hope that those harsh realities ca...

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New guidelines promote expansion of bariatric surgery to treat obesity

February 16, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

A co-author of new guidelines for bariatric surgery says more patients, clinicians, and payers should embrace surgical interventions to treat obesity. ...

In a world of magnets and miracles: Shifting the sands of compliance

Q&A: ISMP President Discusses Medication Safety

Meeting Legionella requirements: Examples from CMS

New Sentinel Event categories focus on Post-Discharge Suicides

TJC returns focus to human trafficking

Think carefully before using security officers to monitor high-risk patients

Ensure compliance with EPA rule: Ban all sewering of hazardous waste drugs

Would you believe there’s nothing up my sleeve?: Protective measures

Don’t forget to leave room for amazement: The perils of occupational fatigue

New guidelines promote expansion of bariatric surgery to treat obesity

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