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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: What’s different about working with LEP and ESL patients?

December 14, 2025

Health Equity, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

Language shouldn’t be a barrier to good healthcare. Hospitals, clinics, and healthcare providers are required to offer interpretation services to anyone who walks in their door, be they English as a s...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Health equity top priority for leader of Institute for Healthcare Improvement

December 14, 2025

Health Equity

As the president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Kedar Mate, MD, is the leader of one of the top healthcare reform organizations in the world. IHI was founded in 1991. The n...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Reasons for prescription non-adherence are complicated

December 14, 2025

Health Equity, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Taking medicine as prescribed is crucial for maintaining health, particularly for patients with chronic illnesses like diabetes, hypertension, or mental health issues. While education and trust are im...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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From crisis to opportunity: partnering to address SDOH, health disparities

December 14, 2025

Health Equity, Leadership & Finance

A recent McKinsey & Company report, for example, found that during the pandemic, rural communities with diverse populations experienced 1.7 times more COVID-19 deaths per capita than other rural c...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Review workplace violence prevention programs against new TJC standards

December 14, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Health Equity, Workplace safety

Take another look at your workplace violence prevention (WVP) policies and procedures now that The Joint Commission (TJC) has formally published new and revised standards that will be effective Januar...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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The Chief Medical Officer’s role in addressing health equity

December 14, 2025

Health Equity

A chief medical executive has a key role to play in addressing health equity, the new chief medical executive at Clive, Iowa-based MercyOne says. Hijinio Carreon, DO, was recently named to the newly c...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: Creating the first early psychosis intervention clinic in New Orleans

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Health Equity, Leadership & Finance

Back in 2015, Ashley Weiss, DO, MPH, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine, together with Serena Chaudhry, LCSW, MPH, a clinical social worker affiliate...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Addressing inequity

December 14, 2025

Health Equity, Patient Safety

Data from the COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmingly highlighted the longstanding inequity in healthcare. A May 2020 study from Sutter Health researchers that analyzed 1,052 confirmed cases of COVID-19 ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, May 2021

December 14, 2025

Health Equity, Patient Safety

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Q&A: Designing LGBTQIA+ friendly healthcare

December 14, 2025

Health Equity, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

For more insight, PSMJ spoke with study author Alex S. Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, about LGBTQIA+ health and patient safety. Keuroghlian is the director of both the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center...

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Q&A: What’s different about working with LEP and ESL patients?

Health equity top priority for leader of Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Reasons for prescription non-adherence are complicated

From crisis to opportunity: partnering to address SDOH, health disparities

Review workplace violence prevention programs against new TJC standards

The Chief Medical Officer’s role in addressing health equity

Q&A: Creating the first early psychosis intervention clinic in New Orleans

Addressing inequity

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, May 2021

Q&A: Designing LGBTQIA+ friendly healthcare

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