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Healthcare Safety Leader
- Volume
32
Issue
4

Spring cleaning? Don’t forget to check supplies and devices for expiration dates

April 08, 2024
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors
Thinking about spring cleaning? Be sure to include clearing out drugs, biologicals, medical supplies, and devices that are expired, and to double-check that equipment maintenance for even the smallest...
Healthcare Safety Leader
- Volume
32
Issue
4

Know where your fire and smoke dampers are to help avoid RFIs at survey

December 13, 2025
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Fire & Life Safety
It’s time for your survey: Do you know where your fire and smoke dampers are? ...
Inside Accreditation & Quality
- Volume
6
Issue
4

OCR probe into patient complaints prompts hospital to provide kosher electronic devices

December 13, 2025
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Cybersecurity & Technology, Patient Safety
When assessing the needs of each patient, don’t forget to ask about religious requirements, including patients who are seeking care virtually or engaging in education through hospital-provided tablets...
Mac's Safety Space
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18
Issue
3

Breaking news: Regulated medical waste to be managed

December 13, 2025
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities
In an interesting update, our friends from Chicago have updated the requirements for managing trash (heretofore identified as: The hospital has procedures for the proper routine storage and prompt dis...
Inside Accreditation & Quality
- Volume
6
Issue
3

CMS reopens goal to strengthen federal oversight of accrediting organizations

December 13, 2025
Accreditation & Survey Preparation
CMS officials are calling for more federal oversight of accrediting organizations (AO) due to unhappiness with patient safety mistakes they learn about from the news media and with problems identified...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
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Updated CMS Crosswalk now available for Platinum members!

December 13, 2025
Accreditation & Survey Preparation
Click here now to see the updated version of The CMS Compliance Crosswalk. The CMS Compliance Crosswalk, 2024 Edition, is the latest and greatest edition of HCPro’s highly regarded accreditation cr...
Inside Accreditation & Quality
- Volume
6
Issue
3

Transforming survey preparation efficiency, resource allocation

March 19, 2024
Accreditation & Survey Preparation
CMS’ State Operations Manual, Appendix A, offers interpretive guidelines for its own state surveyors and generally has been held as the guide for all the accrediting bodies. It outlines the tasks that...
Inside Accreditation & Quality
- Volume
6
Issue
3

CMS says texting of orders is OK, as long as security rules followed

December 13, 2025
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Cybersecurity & Technology
Effective immediately, CMS says texting of patient information and of patient orders is permissible—with some caveats. In a memo to CMS state survey agency directors on February 8, CMS noted that due ...
Healthcare Safety Leader
- Volume
32
Issue
3

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...

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