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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Ethics, professional boundaries, and practitioners

February 11, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Health Equity

As practitioners, we don’t always have the privilege to determine what is ethical or not. That is why most fiduciary bodies of medicine, law, clergy, and many others have ethical standards for their m...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Joint Commission moves to three-year appointment cycle—now what?

January 31, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Joint Commission’s time frame for evaluating licensed practitioners’ ability to provide care, treatment, and services has been updated from two years to three years, and is intended to better alig...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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OSHA adds ‘instance-by-instance’ citation policy

January 31, 2023

Workplace safety

OSHA has issued new enforcement guidance, allowing “instance-by-instance” citations for “high-gravity” serious violations of several agency standards. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Departmental Workplace Violence Assessment (courtesy Bryan Warren)

January 30, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

(Departmental workplace violence risk assessment courtesy of Bryan Warren, president and chief consultant for WarSec Security; for more information on this tool, go here; for a downloadable copy of th...

Mac's Safety Space

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Making sure folks can’t break on through to the other side…

January 30, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Workplace safety

One of the critical aspects of managing the security of your building is effectively “hardening” your perimeter, which to a fair degree means that you’ll have to secure some doors. ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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CMS final rule on rural emergency hospitals offers flexibility on 24-hour observation limit

January 24, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In its final rule, CMS included behavioral health and low-risk maternal labor and delivery on the list of services allowed under the rural emergency hospital (REH) designation. However, some hospitals...

Medical Environment Update

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Improving patient experience and disparate tech

February 11, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Cybersecurity & Technology

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the accelerated uptake of technology, says Patty Hayward, vice president of strategy, healthcare, and life sciences with Talkdesk. “Everyone needed healthcare, but t...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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2023 could be the year Joint Commission workplace violence standards get the spotlight

February 11, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety

The Joint Commission (TJC) unveiled new and revised workplace violence prevention (WPV) requirements effective January 1, 2022. Specifically, it issued three new elements of performance (EP) to existi...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Safe staffing at the top of new ANA president’s priority list

February 11, 2026

Health Equity, Healthcare Staff, Workplace safety

As Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, assumes the presidency of the American Nurses Association (ANA), her priorities will include safe staffing and continuing the momentum of her pr...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Joint Commission targets maternal health crisis

February 11, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In several reports, the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate compared to other developed countries—a report from The Commonwealth Fund found the United States had the worst maternal m...

Ethics, professional boundaries, and practitioners

Joint Commission moves to three-year appointment cycle—now what?

OSHA adds ‘instance-by-instance’ citation policy

Departmental Workplace Violence Assessment (courtesy Bryan Warren)

Making sure folks can’t break on through to the other side…

CMS final rule on rural emergency hospitals offers flexibility on 24-hour observation limit

Improving patient experience and disparate tech

2023 could be the year Joint Commission workplace violence standards get the spotlight

Safe staffing at the top of new ANA president’s priority list

Joint Commission targets maternal health crisis

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