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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: Antibiotic indications

December 18, 2025

Infection Control, Laboratory Safety, Quality & Errors

Despite being a best practice and one of the elements of CDC’s Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship, very few healthcare organizations have likely mandated indications for antibiotics, says Bradley...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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New CMS antibiotic stewardship survey tags focus on leadership

August 09, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Find a pharmacist, provider, or infection preventionist (IP) with a good grounding in antibiotic stewardship to tackle the responsibilities and requirements set out in six new hospital survey tags rec...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Check utility controls, labels as surveyors highlight improper storage of medical supplies

August 09, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Physical environment, Infection Control

Regularly check the humidity and temperature in storage areas for sterile supplies to ensure you are meeting requirements outlined in NFPA 99-2012 and highlighted in a recent Quick Safety alert from T...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Monkeypox: CDC updates guidance for handling lab specimens, waste

August 02, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Ensure staff know how to handle laboratory specimens as well as hazardous medical waste associated with suspected monkeypox patients. ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Use COVID-19 lessons to inform monkeypox action plan

August 02, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

With monkeypox cases climbing in each state, sometimes dramatically, hospitals should be creating and implementing a plan that includes education of both staff and patients, say experts. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Establish monkeypox infection control team, monitor community outbreaks

July 25, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

Establish a monkeypox emerging infectious disease team now that all but six states are reporting confirmed cases of the disease, which has been declared a global health emergency. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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At the time of writing we were on the brink…

July 25, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Anyone who thought that COVID19 would be appearing in the rearview mirror as we sped down the highway of life came face-to-face with a double dose of double-downing as the Secretary of Health and Huma...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS updates IC interpretive guidelines for hospitals

July 06, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

CMS issued six new survey tags as well as other updates to its online manual of interpretive guidelines for Conditions of Participation (COP) on infection prevention and control and antibiotic steward...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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ACHC annual report offers tips for avoiding common hospital deficiencies

July 12, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Standardize how your hospital manages its medical supplies to ensure that they are safely stored, updated, and available when needed. Also be sure to approve policies, procedures, plans, and related d...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Monkeypox: CDC updates guidance for medical waste handling

July 08, 2022

Infection Control, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

The CDC has updated its guidance on infection control of monkeypox for healthcare settings, reminding providers that any case suspected of being of the more deadly Congo Basin clade requires more exte...

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Q&A: Antibiotic indications

New CMS antibiotic stewardship survey tags focus on leadership

Check utility controls, labels as surveyors highlight improper storage of medical supplies

Monkeypox: CDC updates guidance for handling lab specimens, waste

Use COVID-19 lessons to inform monkeypox action plan

Establish monkeypox infection control team, monitor community outbreaks

At the time of writing we were on the brink…

CMS updates IC interpretive guidelines for hospitals

ACHC annual report offers tips for avoiding common hospital deficiencies

Monkeypox: CDC updates guidance for medical waste handling

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