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Can you show me your EID? Do you know why I pulled you over?

January 10, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Surging Deltas! Spiking Omicrons! Holy Infection Control, Batman! Eventually, there may be time to start planning for whatever disease process(es) ...

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OSHA withdraws non-recordkeeping parts of first COVID-19 rule, at least for now

January 05, 2022

Workplace safety, Infection Control

OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) that was designed to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 exposure is on hiatus, but keep meeting its requirements to avoid citations under other standard...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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How will you flush your toilets if you lose water for an extended period?

December 21, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control

Plan now for how you are going to flush toilets if you lose water for several hours or even days, or you might find yourself and your staff having to deal with toilet paper disposal by hand. During...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Delayed care linked to increase in NJ excess deaths during pandemic, report says

December 21, 2025

Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Delayed or deferred care likely contributed to excess deaths in New Jersey during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, a recent report from the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Center for Heal...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Primary care sidelined in coronavirus pandemic response, study says

December 21, 2025

Patient Safety, Infection Control

During the coronavirus pandemic, the failure to elevate the role of primary care providers on the frontline alongside public health officials has resulted in several missed opportunities to respond to...

Medical Environment Update

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OSHA extends public comment on COVID-19 vaccine rule

December 21, 2025

Infection Control, Workplace safety

Didn’t have time to gather your thoughts yet on OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring vaccination and testing for employers with 100 or more employees? You can still offer up your two ce...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Federal rules on vaccinations supersede state or local orders

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

In case you missed it, here’s a compilation of breaking news from the Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center since Healthcare Safety Leader was last published. by A.J. Plunkett (aplunkett@decisi...

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Securing healthcare data: Protecting mainframes during COVID and beyond

December 21, 2025

Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

Even pre-pandemic, hospitals were prime targets for hackers and other online threats. That condition has only grown worse over the past 18 months, with vaccine infrastructure becoming a tempting targe...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Federal rules on vaccinations supersede state or local orders

December 21, 2025

Policies and Procedures, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

The new, temporarily suspended CMS interim final rule (IFR) that requires staff vaccinations against COVID-19 will supersede state or local laws or orders that prevent vaccine mandates, notes Marge Mc...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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As patients fell ill with COVID-19 inside hospitals, government oversight fell short

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

One by one, the nurses taking care of actress Judi Evans at Riverside Community Hospital kept calling out sick. Patients were coughing as staffers wheeled the maskless soap opera star around the Ca...

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Can you show me your EID? Do you know why I pulled you over?

OSHA withdraws non-recordkeeping parts of first COVID-19 rule, at least for now

How will you flush your toilets if you lose water for an extended period?

Delayed care linked to increase in NJ excess deaths during pandemic, report says

Primary care sidelined in coronavirus pandemic response, study says

OSHA extends public comment on COVID-19 vaccine rule

Federal rules on vaccinations supersede state or local orders

Securing healthcare data: Protecting mainframes during COVID and beyond

Federal rules on vaccinations supersede state or local orders

As patients fell ill with COVID-19 inside hospitals, government oversight fell short

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