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Medical Environment Update

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Reducing risk in the pharmacy: A key step to improving patient safety

February 12, 2026

Quality & Errors

Although healthcare has always been fast-paced and complex, the pandemic has amplified these challenges and introduced dynamics that can put patient safety and quality care at risk. Mounting staff sho...

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Emergency blanket waivers come to halt and other compliance tips

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Fire & Life Safety, Policies and Procedures, Infection Control

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 7 issued an update to the COVID-19 emergency declaration blanket waivers for specific providers. CMS officials say they will continue t...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Health system and hospital peer network tackles health equity

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Health Equity

A health equity initiative launched by the American Medical Association, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and The Joint Commission is designed to capitalize on peer learning at health systems and hospi...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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TJC seeing progress meeting maternal health standards, but work remains

June 14, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety

Even if your facility does not regularly handle labor and delivery, be sure to include the emergency department (ED) in planning and education to address problems such as maternal hemorrhage and sever...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Investments in hospital security are top of mind following mass shootings

February 12, 2026

Workplace safety

Security has always been a priority for healthcare leaders but in the wake of the mass shooting at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital that left four people dead, and a second hospital shooting that occurred ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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ACHC annual report highlights environment of care deficiencies

June 14, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

Better environmental rounds was a chief recommendation for acute care and critical access hospitals who had maintenance problems with their equipment as well as issues with air supply and return vents...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS seeks comment on HAC measures collection, restraint-related death reporting

June 10, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS wants to suspend calculations of hospital penalties for hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) for fiscal 2025 year because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as revise the information it ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Doing the math in your head – risk assessments in your own house

June 13, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Behavioral & Mental Health

Lately it seems that I’ve been running into risk assessments that “feel” more like incomplete thoughts in that all the risks within the assessed environment are not represented. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Surgeon general releases advisory on health worker burnout

June 07, 2022

Patient Safety, Workplace safety

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, recently released an advisory to address a growing threat of health worker burnout. The advisory provides recommendations for how to address this issue, with ste...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Crafting an effective health message, Part 1: Applying lessons learned from HIV prevention

June 07, 2022

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

It’s the 21st century, and the importance of communication cannot be understated. Crafting an effective message is key for so many patient safety and accreditation compliance challenges, whether it’s ...

Reducing risk in the pharmacy: A key step to improving patient safety

Emergency blanket waivers come to halt and other compliance tips

Health system and hospital peer network tackles health equity

TJC seeing progress meeting maternal health standards, but work remains

Investments in hospital security are top of mind following mass shootings

ACHC annual report highlights environment of care deficiencies

CMS seeks comment on HAC measures collection, restraint-related death reporting

Doing the math in your head – risk assessments in your own house

Surgeon general releases advisory on health worker burnout

Crafting an effective health message, Part 1: Applying lessons learned from HIV prevention

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