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Beware these common problems with business occupancies

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Update your inspection, testing, and maintenance documentation and check your exit signs when preparing to host life safety surveyors from The Joint Commission (TJC) at your business occupancies. (For...

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Update SOCs for off-campus buildings as TJC targets business occupancies

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Be sure your facility electronic Statement of Conditions™ (eSOC) and Basic Building Information (eBBI) are up to date with accurate business occupancy information. Expect life safety (LS) surveyors to...

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Stroke benchmarks during COVID: HFAP releases latest report

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

HFAP, a brand of the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC), issued its annual benchmarking report on stroke programs recently, which demonstrated COVID-19’s impact on these programs. HFAP co...

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OIG cites CMS for poor risk assessments

July 12, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Guess who just got dinged after an audit for not doing a risk assessment right? CMS. ...

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, July 2021

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

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AAAHC Quality Roadmap outlines 2021 deficiencies, tips for compliance

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Find a detail-oriented person at ambulatory healthcare sites to review credentialing and privileging procedures to ensure primary source verification is carried out and that records and licenses for p...

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AAAHC Quality Roadmap outlines 2021 deficiencies, tips for compliance

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

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More OSHA scrutiny on healthcare organizations, expanded whistleblower protections

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety, Infection Control

In March, OSHA issued its Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The updates extend existing OSHA protections for workplace safety whistleblowers, explicitl...

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CMS may extend new LTC vaccine education rules to other facilities

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Review the details of an interim final rule CMS published in May that sets COVID-19 vaccine requirements for long-term care (LTC) facilities and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intel...

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New workplace violence prevention requirements will require tough questions

June 25, 2021

Workplace safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Implementing The Joint Commission’s (TJC) workplace violence prevention requirements is going to take a multidisciplinary committee that is not afraid to ask hard questions about your organization’s c...

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Beware these common problems with business occupancies

Update SOCs for off-campus buildings as TJC targets business occupancies

Stroke benchmarks during COVID: HFAP releases latest report

OIG cites CMS for poor risk assessments

Inside Accreditation and Quality, July 2021

AAAHC Quality Roadmap outlines 2021 deficiencies, tips for compliance

AAAHC Quality Roadmap outlines 2021 deficiencies, tips for compliance

More OSHA scrutiny on healthcare organizations, expanded whistleblower protections

CMS may extend new LTC vaccine education rules to other facilities

New workplace violence prevention requirements will require tough questions

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