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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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COVID-19 and physician burnout: How health systems can help reverse it

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

Nearly 60% of physicians surveyed reported feelings of burnout, compared to 40% in 2018. Half of the physicians surveyed reported experiencing anger, tearfulness, or anxiety due to the pandemic’s effe...

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Mental health and COVID-19: Study finds bilateral impact

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Workplace safety, Infection Control

A new study has found that 18.1% of COVID-19 patients are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder such as depression, anxiety, or insomnia within 90 days of receiving their COVID-19 diagnosis, 5.8% for ...

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Mental, behavioral, and community health during a crisis

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Natural & Manmade Disasters

An emergency that impacts the community your facility serves also impacts your healthcare providers. Physicians, nurses, and other care staff have families and friends they worry about. You’ll have be...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Cultural care delivery: The gateway to promoting greater health equity

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Social and economic factors, such as housing, healthy food, and income, can drive up to 80% of health outcomes, making them critical components in any “whole-person” approach to healthcare. In general...

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Q&A: What hands-on security interventions are acceptable?

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

by A.J. Plunkett (aplunkett@decisionhealth.com) Last fall, as CMS and accrediting organizations increased their scrutiny of how hospitals address suicide risk, the question of whether security or p...

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DNV GL now second deeming authority for psychiatric hospitals

December 14, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

It’s not easy being an accrediting organization (AO) these days. DNV GL Healthcare has been in the business of deeming U.S. acute care and critical access hospitals for approval to bill Medicare for m...

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DNV-GL now 2nd deeming authority for psych hospitals

September 03, 2020

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

Inpatient behavioral health facilities seeking accreditation to participate in Medicare and Medicaid now have a second choice after CMS approved DNV-GL Healthcare’s first application for recognition a...

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, September 2020

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control

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Use of force in healthcare

December 14, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

As the nation continues to discuss use of force by law enforcement, healthcare organizations must have their own discussions on how force is applied on their grounds. There are no simple solutions for...

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Inform, reassure, and reduce anxiety during COVID-19

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

Here are areas where your facility can work to ease patients’ safety concerns during the pandemic. They come from Colleen McCrory, MBA, FACHE, a coach in Huron’s Studer Group advisory firm with 19 yea...

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COVID-19 and physician burnout: How health systems can help reverse it

Mental health and COVID-19: Study finds bilateral impact

Mental, behavioral, and community health during a crisis

Cultural care delivery: The gateway to promoting greater health equity

Q&A: What hands-on security interventions are acceptable?

DNV GL now second deeming authority for psychiatric hospitals

DNV-GL now 2nd deeming authority for psych hospitals

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, September 2020

Use of force in healthcare

Inform, reassure, and reduce anxiety during COVID-19

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