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Putting the (O)SHA back in OMG

December 21, 2025

Infection Control, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I’m sure you were right there with me last week pondering the potential impact of the Emergency Temporary Standard issued by our friends at the Big O...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS, OSHA issue vaccine mandates that may impact staff shortages

November 04, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Start evaluating staffing levels and develop a plan for educating your workforce on new CMS and OSHA worker COVID-19 vaccine mandates that could impact staffing shortages at hospitals and other health...

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COVID-19 PHE is extended again, effective October 18

October 15, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

The national COVID-19 public health emergency has been extended for another 90 days. ...

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CDC, CMS, and FDA update COVID-19 guidance and safety expectations

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

The CDC continues to update its COVID-19 infection prevention and control recommendations for healthcare personnel. Those recommendations call for the continued use of masks and other source control m...

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New IDSA President: ‘The COVID-19 pandemic Is not going anywhere fast’

December 21, 2025

Infection Control

The new president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) says his organization is focused mainly on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Daniel McQuillen, MD, took on the leading role at...

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Titration, HLD and sterilization of medical devices among challenges

December 21, 2025

Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Not using or cleaning devices or equipment according to manufacturers’ instructions and improper management of medications were the top clinical compliance issues highlighted in the first Executive Br...

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U.S. prisons were COVID hothouses during pandemic first wave

December 21, 2025

Infection Control

Inmates in the nation’s prisons were more than three times as likely to contract COVID-19 and more than twice as likely to die from it during the first year of the pandemic, when compared with the ove...

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Improving healthcare during the post-COVID era

December 21, 2025

Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, has only ever wanted to serve in healthcare. Thirty years ago, she started a practice on the East Coast. In 1993, she joined Kaiser Permanente as a front-line internist. Over...

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Expect the pandemic to continue to impact survey activities for near future

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Check your emergency rooms, outpatient clinics, wound care clinics, ambulatory care sites, and anywhere else where pandemic-related equipment shortages have forced your facility to go outside normal s...

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How Nurses are Urging the Unvaccinated to Reconsider

December 21, 2025

Infection Control

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has launched Hear Us Out, a nationwide effort to show the COVID-19 pandemic from frontline nurses’ perspective and urge those who have yet to be...

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Putting the (O)SHA back in OMG

CMS, OSHA issue vaccine mandates that may impact staff shortages

COVID-19 PHE is extended again, effective October 18

CDC, CMS, and FDA update COVID-19 guidance and safety expectations

New IDSA President: ‘The COVID-19 pandemic Is not going anywhere fast’

Titration, HLD and sterilization of medical devices among challenges

U.S. prisons were COVID hothouses during pandemic first wave

Improving healthcare during the post-COVID era

Expect the pandemic to continue to impact survey activities for near future

How Nurses are Urging the Unvaccinated to Reconsider

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