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Joint Commission boosts antimicrobial stewardship, falls prevention programs

July 01, 2026

Quality & Errors, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Joint Commission is strengthening an antimicrobial stewardship program started three years ago, hoping to get medical centers and other ambulatory healthcare facilities to follow the lead of many ...

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Get ready to measure for accurate square footage — BBI is now required

July 01, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Get ready, folks: BBI is back! ...

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Expect renewed focus on post-discharge suicides with new SE categories

September 17, 2019

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Expect even more focus on how hospitals help patients at risk of suicide soon after discharge, now that two suicide-related categories have been shown to make up the top five sentinel events for the f...

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, September 2019

September 02, 2019

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

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Beware the bio slime: Legionella problems can lurk even in new pipes

August 27, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Include your water management team in construction and renovation projects to ensure checks are done for waterborne infections before patients and staff move in. ...

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In a world of magnets and miracles: Shifting the sands of compliance

September 27, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant At the risk of engaging in non-sequiturial (which autocorrect keeps insisting should be non-equatorial) content, I want to touch on a couple of short ...

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Meeting Legionella requirements: Examples from CMS

August 27, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Review and update your water management plan to include the latest guidelines by CMS and CDC. ...

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New Sentinel Event categories focus on Post-Discharge Suicides

July 01, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

While suicide overall often has been in the top sentinel events, this breakdown includes two categories that split suicide events into those involving an inpatient and events involving a patient withi...

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Think carefully before using security officers to monitor high-risk patients

July 01, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Policies and Procedures

Probably the best practice, however, is not to use them at all. ...

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Accreditation & Patient Safety Roundup merger

July 01, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety

We sent the first of the combined IAQ and PSMJ roundups yesterday, August 5, with the subject line AQCC Roundup (IAQ and PSMJ)- August 2019. ...

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Joint Commission boosts antimicrobial stewardship, falls prevention programs

Get ready to measure for accurate square footage — BBI is now required

Expect renewed focus on post-discharge suicides with new SE categories

Inside Accreditation and Quality, September 2019

Beware the bio slime: Legionella problems can lurk even in new pipes

In a world of magnets and miracles: Shifting the sands of compliance

Meeting Legionella requirements: Examples from CMS

New Sentinel Event categories focus on Post-Discharge Suicides

Think carefully before using security officers to monitor high-risk patients

Accreditation & Patient Safety Roundup merger

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