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Q&A: CDC town hall addresses preventing Legionella contamination

February 17, 2026

On June 2, CMS issued a new memo to surveyors on the importance of reducing cases of Legionella infections. Not long after, the CDC issued a Vital Signs report underlining the bacterium’s risk t...

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AAMI takes action on medical cart fires

February 17, 2026

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report warning that mobile medical carts have been overheating, igniting, smoking, burning, or exploding. This July, the Association for th...

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FDA ban on powdered medical gloves now in effect

February 17, 2026

Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Joint Commission now surveying for compliance The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ban on powdered medical gloves went into effect on January 18. It’s now forbidden to use, advertise, and marke...

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How Palomar Health reduced nuisance IV alarms

February 17, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

People can grow used to anything, even alarms. Such is the danger of alarm fatigue; when excessive and nuisance alerts cause healthcare staff to become desensitized. When this happens, healthcare staf...

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ISMP’s targeted medication safety best practices for 2017

February 17, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Editor’s note: The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) released its 2016–2017 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals guide in December 2015. The first edition of the best p...

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Study: Postoperative complications are a major concern for hospitals

February 17, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

A recent study sheds new light on the prevalence of postoperative complications. In November 2016, a study published in the British Journal of Anesthesia (BJA) found that each year there are 50 mil...

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Q&A: How to respond to the WHO's top 12 superbugs list

February 17, 2026

Infection Control, Patient Safety

Editor’s note: In February, The World Health Organization (WHO) published its first list of a dozen families of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens” that pose the greatest threat to humanity. ...

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Bringing universal suicide screening to your hospital

February 17, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Behavioral & Mental Health

With suicide rates high and getting higher, hospitals and clinics need to revamp how they work with suicidal patients. The first step is developing a system to identify struggling patients so they can...

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ECRI: The rules on copying and pasting medical information

February 17, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

In 2016, the ECRI Institute’s Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety released its Health IT Safe Practices: Toolkit for the Safe Use of Copy and Paste. The toolkit outlines the risks and benefits o...

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Innovation in pursuit of high-reliability culture

February 17, 2026

Quality & Errors

The Institute of Medicine sent waves racing across the surface of American healthcare when it published To Err Is Human in 1999. The unsettling report suggested medical errors were killing at least 44...

Q&A: CDC town hall addresses preventing Legionella contamination

AAMI takes action on medical cart fires

FDA ban on powdered medical gloves now in effect

How Palomar Health reduced nuisance IV alarms

ISMP’s targeted medication safety best practices for 2017

Study: Postoperative complications are a major concern for hospitals

Q&A: How to respond to the WHO's top 12 superbugs list

Bringing universal suicide screening to your hospital

ECRI: The rules on copying and pasting medical information

Innovation in pursuit of high-reliability culture

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