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Healthcare Safety Leader

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Want to save time? Evaluate your eyewash stations to see if they are actually needed

December 13, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Eyewash stations pose some of the most frequent problems during survey. But they don’t have to, says Richard L. Parker, CHFM, CLSS-HC, FACHE, FASHE, associate director of life safety and physical envi...

Medical Environment Update

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Q&A: Cleaning out the bad SOPs in your laboratory

December 13, 2025

Laboratory Safety, Policies and Procedures

It is standard operating procedure (SOP) to have multiple SOPs in your laboratory or facility. SOPs cover everything from donning and doffing PPE to hand hygiene, the use of equipment, and the handlin...

Mac's Safety Space

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ECRI top 10 patient safety concerns

December 13, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Physical environment

Recently, the good folks at ECRI revealed their report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2024. I don’t know that anyone would be surprised at what made the list, though I am surprised that one...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Training healthcare staff with the proper dose: Part 1

March 11, 2024

Patient Safety

You don’t give the same dose of medication to every patient, and the same is true with training healthcare staff, says Robert Lloyd, PhD, a vice president of improvement science and senior improvement...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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ACHC reports often-cited standards at acute care, critical access hospitals

March 04, 2024

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Accreditation Commission for Health Care’s (ACHC) recent Quality Review Edition of its publication The Surveyor for acute care hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAH) examined the most frequ...

Mac's Safety Space

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What do you do when a surveyor tells you (you have to do) something?

December 13, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

But then, when you get a chance to review the contents of the survey report, what the surveyor told you in the moment isn’t anywhere to be found … It seems that lately, there’s been a spate of folk...

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Strategies for safety: Navigating solutions for healthcare workplace violence, Part 2

March 04, 2024

Workplace safety

Hospitals seeking to develop a workplace violence prevention program must do so with a multidisciplinary team in order for the program to be comprehensive and effective. This team should be led by the...

Medical Environment Update

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OSHA challenges for ambulatory surgery centers

March 04, 2024

Workplace safety

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) encounter distinct OSHA compliance challenges compared to other healthcare facilities, says Troy Lair, PhD, principal consultant of Elite Accreditation Consultants. Li...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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UAMS breaks the rules for better healthcare

March 04, 2024

Patient Safety

Thea Rosenbaum, MD, MBA, is the chief clinical transformation officer at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and has experience in breaking the rules—in a good way. As a member of t...

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Strategies for safety: Navigating solutions for healthcare workplace violence, Part 1

December 13, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Workplace violence in healthcare remains a serious matter. About 73% of all nonfatal workplace violence-related injuries involved healthcare workers in 2018, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statis...

Want to save time? Evaluate your eyewash stations to see if they are actually needed

Q&A: Cleaning out the bad SOPs in your laboratory

ECRI top 10 patient safety concerns

Training healthcare staff with the proper dose: Part 1

ACHC reports often-cited standards at acute care, critical access hospitals

What do you do when a surveyor tells you (you have to do) something?

Strategies for safety: Navigating solutions for healthcare workplace violence, Part 2

OSHA challenges for ambulatory surgery centers

UAMS breaks the rules for better healthcare

Strategies for safety: Navigating solutions for healthcare workplace violence, Part 1

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