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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Healthcare’s role in community outreach during COVID-19

December 21, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Well over 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, taking stock of lessons learned and next steps can be a challenge. The industry has encountered a lot in a very compressed time frame, so focusing on sp...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Expert: Healthcare worker burnout trending in alarming direction

December 21, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

Healthcare worker burnout has reached crisis proportions and urgent action is required to turn the tide, a national burnout expert says. Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, APRN-CNP, is chief wellness offi...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Sepsis: Awareness has life-saving value

December 21, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

Sepsis is a problem that won’t go away. Globally, one in five deaths are caused by sepsis. In U.S. hospitals, sepsis is the leading cause of death and hospital readmissions. The condition is fast acti...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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OSHA extends public comment on COVID-19 vaccine rule

December 01, 2021

Infection Control, Workplace safety

by A.J. Plunkett (aplunkett@decisionhealth.com) 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...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Labor department requests vaccine rule reinstatement

December 21, 2025

Infection Control

Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) November 23 asked a federal appeals court to lift judicial restrictions on an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) emergency temporary ...

Mac's Safety Space

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I think the people down the hall know who we are…

November 29, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As we start moving (in what is likely to be a sprint) towards the end of the year, a couple of items for your consideration. First up, in the Decem...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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OSHA suspends enforcement of its vaccine mandate

November 18, 2021

Workplace safety, Infection Control

OSHA has suspended enforcement of its COVID-19 vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS) while the requirement is challenged in court, according to a statement on the agency’s ETS inf...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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COVID-19 fears and frustration add to recruiting challenges for hospitals

December 21, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Infection Control

For the past several months, the federal government has tried a variety of measures aimed at helping workers and families cope during the pandemic. But government measures apparently aren’t going far ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS interim rule on vaccinations supersedes state or local orders

November 05, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Workplace safety

The new CMS interim final rule that requires staff vaccinations against COVID-19 supersedes state or local laws or orders that prevent vaccine mandates. But the CMS rule may not cover all healthcare e...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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OSHA issues COVID-19 vaccination or testing ETS

December 21, 2025

Infection Control, Workplace safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) November 4 issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring employers with 100 or more employees to implement a program of COVID-19 vacci...

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Healthcare’s role in community outreach during COVID-19

Expert: Healthcare worker burnout trending in alarming direction

Sepsis: Awareness has life-saving value

OSHA extends public comment on COVID-19 vaccine rule

Labor department requests vaccine rule reinstatement

I think the people down the hall know who we are…

OSHA suspends enforcement of its vaccine mandate

COVID-19 fears and frustration add to recruiting challenges for hospitals

CMS interim rule on vaccinations supersedes state or local orders

OSHA issues COVID-19 vaccination or testing ETS

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