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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Peer review in the primary care setting

February 10, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Ensuring you have competent physicians who are providing high-quality care is essential to the success of any healthcare organization. To evaluate physician care, hospitals and medical staffs have spe...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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CMS reopens goal to strengthen federal oversight of accrediting organizations

February 10, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS officials are calling for more federal oversight of accrediting organizations (AO) due to unhappiness with patient safety mistakes they learn about from the news media and with problems identified...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Put healthcare life safety compliance training and education front and center

February 10, 2026

Fire & Life Safety

Training and education in any professional role can help individuals improve their skills and learning competencies. Training and education opportunities, however, often get sidelined by day-to-day du...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Updated CMS Crosswalk now available for Platinum members!

February 10, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Click here now to see the updated version of The CMS Compliance Crosswalk. The CMS Compliance Crosswalk, 2024 Edition, is the latest and greatest edition of HCPro’s highly regarded accreditation cr...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Transforming survey preparation efficiency, resource allocation

March 19, 2024

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS’ State Operations Manual, Appendix A, offers interpretive guidelines for its own state surveyors and generally has been held as the guide for all the accrediting bodies. It outlines the tasks that...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Include possibility of civic unrest as part of your emergency management planning

February 10, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Workplace safety, Environment and Facilities

As CMS begins focusing more on emergency preparedness planning, review your hospital’s plans to ensure they include how the facility will handle a patient surge during civic unrest. Preparation for ci...

Medical Environment Update

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Making your laboratory a high reliability organization

February 10, 2026

Laboratory Safety, Quality & Errors

You can never be too reliable, especially when you work in biosafety and handle hazardous chemicals all day. Becoming a high reliability organization (HRO) has been a goal of many hospitals and labora...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Understanding the nursing shortage: How to make your organization a leader in nurse retention

February 10, 2026

Healthcare Staff, Leadership & Finance

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the demand for registered nurses (RN) will increase on average by 193,100 annually. This demand will stretch over all aspects of nursing, from hospital...

Mac's Safety Space

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Managing one of your most critical utility systems' assets

March 19, 2024

Environment and Facilities

While most of the time your Emergency Power Supply System (EPSS) stands by to provide coverage in the event of a power outage/disruption, as most of you know, it takes a lot of care and feeding (so t...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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CMS says texting of orders is OK, as long as security rules followed

February 10, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Cybersecurity & Technology

Effective immediately, CMS says texting of patient information and of patient orders is permissible—with some caveats. In a memo to CMS state survey agency directors on February 8, CMS noted that due ...

Peer review in the primary care setting

CMS reopens goal to strengthen federal oversight of accrediting organizations

Put healthcare life safety compliance training and education front and center

Updated CMS Crosswalk now available for Platinum members!

Transforming survey preparation efficiency, resource allocation

Include possibility of civic unrest as part of your emergency management planning

Making your laboratory a high reliability organization

Understanding the nursing shortage: How to make your organization a leader in nurse retention

Managing one of your most critical utility systems' assets

CMS says texting of orders is OK, as long as security rules followed

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