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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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19

Issue

12

PEARR: Treating abuse and violence victims, step by step

February 17, 2026

Patient Safety, Workplace safety

Holly Austin Gibbs has been the director of Dignity Health’s Human Trafficking Response Program since 2015. She is also a survivor of child sex trafficking, recovered by law enforcement when she was 1...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

19

Issue

12

The future of infection prevention

February 17, 2026

Healthcare organizations are feeling the repercussions of noncompliance when it comes to infection prevention. For several years now, the most cited clinical standard in hospitals, critical access hos...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

12

Issue

47

CDC Highlights Antibiotic Awareness Week

February 17, 2026

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is encouraging healthcare organizations to improve their use of antibiotic medications through U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week, which takes place th...

Inside the Joint Commission

- Volume

23

Issue

22

Inside the Joint Commission, November 12, 2018

February 17, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In this issue: Proposed rules: CMS extends time to finalize discharge planning proposal for hospitals, others Patient safety Q&A: Look to IT for help to resolve problems with patient ident...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

12

Issue

46

Tapping Patient Engagement to Reduce Diagnostic Errors

February 17, 2026

Drawing information from patients can help boost understanding of why diagnostic errors happen and reduce the risk of future errors, research published this week says....

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality

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29

Issue

11

Get your governing board involved with water management to meet CMS expectations

February 17, 2026

Alert your hospital leadership that CMS and other surveyors are not only looking for water management plans to control Legionella and waterborne pathogens, they may ask for governing board minutes or ...

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

29

Issue

11

Q&A: Patient misidentification

February 17, 2026

Patient misidentification is an underreported problem that still plagues healthcare. Despite electronic records, bar codes, and checklists, many patients end up getting the wrong procedure, medicine, ...

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

29

Issue

11

Joint Commission surveyor focus remains on EC, LS, ligature risks

February 17, 2026

Some of the top takeaways for environment of care and other healthcare and quality professionals attending The Joint Commission’s (TJC) annual Hospital Executive Briefings held September 14 in N...

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

29

Issue

11

Q&A: Joint Commission talks ligature risk

February 17, 2026

In a live question-and-answer session, Kathryn Petrovic, MSN, RN-BC, The Joint Commission’s (TJC) field director of surveyor management and development, and Emily Wells, CSW, MSW, TJC’s pr...

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

29

Issue

11

PSS-3: Three-question suicide screener for the ER

February 17, 2026

The tool consists of a short introduction and three questions, with an optional fourth item if the person has previously attempted suicide. It’s meant to be given during triage or primary nursin...