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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: Customizing team-based care

December 14, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Jeff Salvon-Harman, MD, CPE, CPPS, vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, spoke with PSMJ about how to create a team-based care model that works best for your hospital, clinic, or...

Medical Environment Update

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Q&A: Biorisk and biosecurity management in the laboratory

December 14, 2025

Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

Biorisk and biosecurity management protects lab workers and the communities they work in from the unintended, or intended, release of biological agents. The importance of this cannot be overstated, gi...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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OSHA: Respiratory protections, bloodborne pathogens, and hazard communication lead hospital violations

July 18, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Get your respiratory protection program up to date and make sure it’s written and enforced, because OSHA inspectors are pressing to put those violations in a category that could mean a penalty of up t...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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CMS reminds hospitals, survey agencies of discharge planning and procedure requirements

July 18, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Brush up on discharge procedures and requirements, and review communication with post-acute care (PAC) providers, CMS says, including discharges to home health care. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac’s Safety Space: CMS survey warning—There will be no warning!

July 17, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In its ever-increasing strategies to assert control over the accreditation survey process, the good folks at CMS have basically instructed the various accreditation organizations to cease and desist f...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CDC: New RSV vaccine recommended for adults over 60

December 14, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety

Two new Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccines have been recommended by the CDC for use in older patients. The new RSV vaccines from GSK and Pfizer are the first ones licensed in the U.S. to prote...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Four ways nurse leaders can effectively retain staff

December 14, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Healthcare Staff

One of the most common practices among nurse leaders to improve retention is employee rounding—so much so that the time-consuming practice has been “hard-wired” into leadership routines. Problem is, r...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Study identifies interventions physicians and nurses want to address burnout

December 14, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Healthcare Staff

To address burnout, physicians and nurses prefer actions to boost nurse staffing, increase clinician control over workload, and improve work environments rather than wellness programs and resilience t...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

December 14, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff

“Often the work drives us together, but again, then it gets to that difference between ‘we connect when we have to because the work demands it’ versus ‘we’re intentional in the team construct and we m...

Medical Environment Update

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Laboratory sanitizer policies post-COVID

December 14, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Laboratory Safety

If your lab or clinic hasn’t done so already, it will have to review its supply, storage, and placement of alcohol-based hand rub and sanitizers, says Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, a laboratory safety o...

Q&A: Customizing team-based care

Q&A: Biorisk and biosecurity management in the laboratory

OSHA: Respiratory protections, bloodborne pathogens, and hazard communication lead hospital violations

CMS reminds hospitals, survey agencies of discharge planning and procedure requirements

Mac’s Safety Space: CMS survey warning—There will be no warning!

CDC: New RSV vaccine recommended for adults over 60

Four ways nurse leaders can effectively retain staff

Study identifies interventions physicians and nurses want to address burnout

Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

Laboratory sanitizer policies post-COVID

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