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PTSD: There is help for patients—and providers

August 12, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Workplace safety, Infection Control

PTSD occurs after a person experiences or witnesses a highly stressful or upsetting event. Patients can also develop PTSD secondhand, from close contact with people who’ve also undergone the trauma. T...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Should OSHA's new COVID-19 protections become permanent? Comment until August 20

July 12, 2021

Workplace safety, Infection Control

OSHA will take comments until August 20 on an emergency temporary standard to set COVID-19 worker protection requirements that the federal agency is considering making permanent. ...

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Refresh yourself on surgical site infection prevention

August 12, 2026

Infection Control

With voluntary operations and procedures returning, huddle with your surgery and infection prevention teams to review your surgical site infection (SSI) prevention policies and best practices. More th...

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Hospitals cut 5.5K jobs in June

August 12, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Infection Control

The healthcare sector has shed 537,000 jobs since the start of the pandemic in February 2020, with hospitals accounting for 102,000 job losses, and nursing homes accounting for 360,000 job losses. Amb...

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More OSHA scrutiny on healthcare organizations, expanded whistleblower protections

August 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety, Infection Control

In March, OSHA issued its Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The updates extend existing OSHA protections for workplace safety whistleblowers, explicitl...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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CMS may extend new LTC vaccine education rules to other facilities

August 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Review the details of an interim final rule CMS published in May that sets COVID-19 vaccine requirements for long-term care (LTC) facilities and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intel...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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FDA updates recommendations on reprocessing of flexible bronchoscopes

June 28, 2021

Infection Control, Patient Safety

FDA issues new recommmendations on reprocessing flexible bronchoscopes. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Coronavirus pandemic drives growth of hospital at home programs

August 12, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

After modest uptake for nearly three decades, hospital at home programs are now growing faster across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. Johns Hopkins Medicine launched the country’s firs...

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A year of COVID-19 data: Lessons learned

August 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Infection Control

If a year of COVID-19 could be said to have any positives, one is the immense amount of data the pandemic has generated for the healthcare industry. That data has been both vast and valuable, and resu...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Check your state’s pandemic plan to make sure 1135 waivers line up locally

August 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

If your healthcare organization has taken advantage of federal 1135 blanket waivers during the national public health emergency (PHE), be sure to review the use of those waivers as you prepare for sur...

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PTSD: There is help for patients—and providers

Should OSHA's new COVID-19 protections become permanent? Comment until August 20

Refresh yourself on surgical site infection prevention

Hospitals cut 5.5K jobs in June

More OSHA scrutiny on healthcare organizations, expanded whistleblower protections

CMS may extend new LTC vaccine education rules to other facilities

FDA updates recommendations on reprocessing of flexible bronchoscopes

Coronavirus pandemic drives growth of hospital at home programs

A year of COVID-19 data: Lessons learned

Check your state’s pandemic plan to make sure 1135 waivers line up locally

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