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Top skills and traits of a healthcare security officer

February 12, 2026

Workplace safety

Healthcare security officers are often in a thankless position. When nothing happens, that’s a good thing. But hardly any security officers get praised when nothing happens—even though that means they...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Quintuple aim: Health equity added to healthcare improvement directive

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Health Equity

Health equity should be added as the fifth element of a Quintuple Aim to guide healthcare improvement efforts, a recent Viewpoint article published by JAMA says. In 2008, the Triple Aim for healthc...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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OSHA urges action on spike in healthcare injuries, illnesses

February 12, 2026

Infection Control, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) urged healthcare employers to address a spike in workplace illnesses and injuries among their employees. There was a 249% increase in injury an...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Should you centralize credentialing through a CVO?

February 22, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

by Dom Nicastro Is it time to move toward a centralized verification organization (CVO)? Many organizations are doing so to streamline the credentialing process, reduce administrative redundancies,...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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OSHA urges action on spike in healthcare injuries, illnesses

February 12, 2026

Workplace safety

By Guy Burdick, EHS Daily Advisor The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) urged healthcare employers to address a spike in workplace illnesses and injuries among their employees....

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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No slow start for TJC enforcing vaccine requirements

February 15, 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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If 1 is the loneliest number…

February 21, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I think we’ve established for the foreseeable future that the regulatory survey of the physical environment—and, by extension, how one prepares for th...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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(Updated) Are your surveyors vaccinated? Probably, but please don’t ask

February 15, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS has officially put out guidance to its own state survey agencies that all its on-site surveyors should be fully vaccinated, and it expects the same of accrediting organizations (AO). However, acco...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: Safety culture and turnover

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, retaining healthcare staff has grown increasingly difficult. Between the high workload and burnout, many healthcare employees have either left or are th...

Medical Environment Update

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Mental shortcuts, fallacies, and patient harm: How we make healthcare decisions drives patient outcomes

February 12, 2026

Laboratory Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Do you ever think about how you think, or come to conclusions, or make decisions? It’s a Philosophy 101 question, but in the healthcare context it means examining how we make assumptions, skip steps, ...

Top skills and traits of a healthcare security officer

Quintuple aim: Health equity added to healthcare improvement directive

OSHA urges action on spike in healthcare injuries, illnesses

Should you centralize credentialing through a CVO?

OSHA urges action on spike in healthcare injuries, illnesses

No slow start for TJC enforcing vaccine requirements

If 1 is the loneliest number…

(Updated) Are your surveyors vaccinated? Probably, but please don’t ask

Q&A: Safety culture and turnover

Mental shortcuts, fallacies, and patient harm: How we make healthcare decisions drives patient outcomes

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