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CMS urges hospitals to take violence prevention steps

December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety

Recommended steps to prevent workplace violence in hospitals include ensuring workers receive adequate training, having sufficient staffing levels, providing ongoing assessment of patients and residen...

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CMS posts reminder to maintain COVID-19, flu protections

December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS wants hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers, “especially those delivering care in congregate care settings,” to protect patients against the transmission of COVID-19 and influenz...

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Clean those glucometers and trash the household spoons in surgery

December 06, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

In the last few months, surveyors have been repeatedly tagging the failure to properly clean glucometers, and the use of common household items as surgical instruments. Both of these citations could p...

Mac's Safety Space

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Looking forward is looking back…

December 05, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

When standards have been realigned in the past, certain “requirements” were dropped off, but some of those things never really went away, mostly because, while not requirements, those things were esse...

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Bylaws and other governing documents: The Medical Executive Committee's role

November 29, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Policies and Procedures

Medical staffs have various documents that address how they self-govern themselves. All medical staffs are required to have medical staff bylaws. Frequently, the medical staff may also have rules and ...

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Dartmouth Health leads effort to address rural healthcare disparities

December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Health Equity

Rural residents face unique challenges to accessing healthcare such as far-flung geography, according to Dartmouth Health. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Maybe these maps and legends have been misunderstood…

November 28, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Physical environment

Some highlights that might be useful as we close out survey year 2022 and embark upon the 2023 open season on the environment. ...

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December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety

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Medical Environment Update

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Blood pressure device maintenance, with or without manufacturer instructions

December 20, 2025

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. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Get documents ready for surveyors because they may only ask once

November 22, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Physical environment

Download The Joint Commission’s (TJC) document review checklist and ensure you have all the documents available for surveyors before they leave the premises. You may not get another chance. ...

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CMS urges hospitals to take violence prevention steps

CMS posts reminder to maintain COVID-19, flu protections

Clean those glucometers and trash the household spoons in surgery

Looking forward is looking back…

Bylaws and other governing documents: The Medical Executive Committee's role

Dartmouth Health leads effort to address rural healthcare disparities

Maybe these maps and legends have been misunderstood…

Join us for a demo of Accreditation and Quality Compliance Center

Blood pressure device maintenance, with or without manufacturer instructions

Get documents ready for surveyors because they may only ask once

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