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Your frontline nurses need your help. Here’s how to get there

April 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety

Here’s a telling statistic that hits home: Two to three nurses at Massachusetts General Hospital are assaulted on any given day. Nurses at the Boston hospital contend with shoves, kicks, and verbal ha...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Five years to diagnose a rare disease; longer for patients of color

April 15, 2026

Patient Safety, Health Equity, Quality & Errors

What does it mean for a patient to have a rare disease? It means an average of five years before getting a correct diagnosis. It means consultations with over seven clinicians to reach an accurate dia...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Mobile patient engagement: New ideas sometimes clash with old technology

April 15, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Cybersecurity & Technology

Healthcare organizations are finding that an effective patient engagement strategy involves more than just opening a patient portal. A good platform not only gives consumers access to health system se...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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For children hospitalized with COVID-19, factors identified for progression to severe illness

April 15, 2026

Infection Control, Patient Safety

Demographic characteristics, preexisting comorbidities, and vital sign and laboratory values at the time of hospitalization indicate which children with COVID-19 are at higher risk of severe illness, ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Explore using digital dashboards to help with facilities management

April 15, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

One of the hardest parts of being a facilities manager can be keeping track of policies, procedures, logs, maintenance, equipment checks, and other documents that can mean the difference between a suc...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Avoid deficiencies for COVID-19 staff vaccinations with tracking, documentation

February 01, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

by A.J. Plunkett (aplunkett@decisionhealth.com) Understand who is supposed to be vaccinated and when, and establish a way to securely track and update your list of vaccinated staff as you anticipat...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Expert resources and tips for vaccine mandate compliance

February 01, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Joint Commission (TJC) surveyors have been true to their promise to begin surveying to the new COVID-19 vaccine requirement as soon as it became effective, and hospitals are already being scored f...

Mac's Safety Space

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Normalizing relations – a step in a good direction…

February 28, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

A few weeks ago, the good folks at CMS revised their take on how they were going to be surveying organizations relative to their handling of COVID-19 as a specific focus. Much as the adoption of emerg...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Boosting quality, patient adherence while cutting costs with medication management devices

April 15, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Medication non-adherence, particularly among senior patients, is a costly problem facing the American healthcare system. This issue results in an estimated $100 billion–$290 billion in annual costs, a...

Medical Environment Update

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Building blocks to better data

April 15, 2026

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

The one thing healthcare isn’t short on is data. The industry has data coming in from all directions, but that’s not always a perfect scenario—data that is duplicated, low quality, or siloed can prese...

Your frontline nurses need your help. Here’s how to get there

Five years to diagnose a rare disease; longer for patients of color

Mobile patient engagement: New ideas sometimes clash with old technology

For children hospitalized with COVID-19, factors identified for progression to severe illness

Explore using digital dashboards to help with facilities management

Avoid deficiencies for COVID-19 staff vaccinations with tracking, documentation

Expert resources and tips for vaccine mandate compliance

Normalizing relations – a step in a good direction…

Boosting quality, patient adherence while cutting costs with medication management devices

Building blocks to better data

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