Your facility is explored from top to bottom for life safety compliance when life safety surveyors arrive on-site. Beat them to the punch with assistance from Analyzing the Hospital Life Safety Survey...

You already captured the data. Now use it to make real improvements in your patient care. With the increased emphasis from CMS and The Joint Commission on reducing adverse events, it’s more impo...

A new CMS memo creates a definition of a ligature risk, a time frame for correcting them, and interim guidance for surveyors, plus requirements for requesting a time extension for a plan of correction...

The NotPetya computer hack that hit healthcare facilities last summer is a warning to get creative about tightening up security. In the last week of June 2017, foreign-born computer malware attacked t...

Both organizations have changed their expectations on the defintion of a hospital. ...

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The Joint Commission has revised its Life Safety standards LS.04.01.20 through LS.04.02.50 for its Behavioral Health Care Accreditation program....

How patients assess their own pain is a key component to how hospitals are expected to manage pain medications. But what about patients who can’t communicate their level of pain?...

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has announced it intends to push back the compliance deadline for USP Chapter <800> “Hazardous Drugs; Handling in Healthcare Settings” from Ju...

Editor's Note: Click the PDF button above for a full edition of the December 2017 edition of Patient Safety Monitor Journal Patient handoffs: The gap where mistakes are made A patient handoff (also kn...