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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Researcher: ‘The Levees Have Broken’ at emergency departments

February 11, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The new studies examine boarding of patients in emergency departments before they are moved to inpatient beds and patients who left without being seen (LWBS), the latter presumably because of ED crowd...

Mac's Safety Space

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Introducing the worser case scenarios…

October 10, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

As we open up the risk assessment process to the outpatient behavioral health environments, the question becomes how much risk can there be to identify as a going concern? ...

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Cybersecurity threats are real and affect all healthcare teams

February 11, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

These threats are everyone’s game, and that means anyone in charge of life safety and healthcare security from a physical and technical perspective can be affected. And government regulators are takin...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Blood pressure device maintenance, with or without manufacturer instructions

February 11, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The most ubiquitous tools in healthcare include blood pressure cuffs (BPC) and other blood pressure (BP) measuring devices, and their importance can’t be overstated. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Sentara healthcare boosts efforts to address social determinants of health

February 11, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Health Equity

Sentara Healthcare has launched a community care program to provide neighborhood-level access to services for people who are on Medicaid or are uninsured or underinsured. ...

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Researcher: Paxlovid is ‘Game Changer’ in treatment of COVID-19

February 11, 2026

Infection Control, Quality & Errors

In the first two months of the coronavirus pandemic, there were no proven therapies for COVID-19. Now, there are several therapies for COVID-19, including Paxlovid, remdesivir, and monoclonal antibodi...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Discuss any revisions to masking policies with your staff, IC experts

September 30, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The CDC recently revised its guidance on COVID-19 universal masking, but consult with your staff and infection control experts before making changes to your organization policies. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Executive Briefing: Don’t just repair damage, ask why it happened

October 04, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Physical environment, Fire & Life Safety

TJC is increasing its number of LS surveyors and they are all being trained that nothing can hang from or even touch sprinkler pipes unless it is part of the fire suppression system itself, warned Her...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Executive Briefing: TJC working on making surveys less burdensome, more on time

October 04, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Joint Commission (TJC) is training new life safety surveyors as fast as it can, wants to trim accreditation requirements that increase burden unnecessarily, and hopes to be caught up on surveys by...

Mac's Safety Space

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The fight between the blue you once knew…

October 03, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

In an interesting dichotomy that can only truly exist in bureaucracies of a certain magnitude (enormity?) we have the announcement of the newest iteration of the Standards Improvement Initiative (whic...

Researcher: ‘The Levees Have Broken’ at emergency departments

Introducing the worser case scenarios…

Cybersecurity threats are real and affect all healthcare teams

Blood pressure device maintenance, with or without manufacturer instructions

Sentara healthcare boosts efforts to address social determinants of health

Researcher: Paxlovid is ‘Game Changer’ in treatment of COVID-19

Discuss any revisions to masking policies with your staff, IC experts

Executive Briefing: Don’t just repair damage, ask why it happened

Executive Briefing: TJC working on making surveys less burdensome, more on time

The fight between the blue you once knew…

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