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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Adopt a crisis command culture during the coronavirus pandemic

December 23, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

Across the country, health systems and hospitals have established incident command centers to manage the challenges of the pandemic. At Northwell Health last spring, incident command leadership was a ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS creates web portal for questions about 1135 waivers, PHE

January 13, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

CMS creates easier way to ask about waivers during the current public health emergency, which has now been extended to April 21. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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When you’ve done all you can do, what do you do?

December 23, 2025

Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safet As I start this, I’m thinking it will be kind of brief, but you and I have both been at the receiving end of my brevity, so we’ll see what happens. As I ponder...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Coronavirus vaccination: 4 best practices for communicating with patients

December 23, 2025

Infection Control, Quality & Errors

Clinicians need to take a multipronged approach to communicating with their patients about coronavirus vaccination, a Yale New Haven Health expert says. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the co...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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COVID ambassadors help thousands of patients talk with their families during isolation

December 23, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control

Staff who otherwise would have been furloughed were instead trained on COVID-19 safety and virtual communication programs. Their job was to set up and facilitate virtual visits between patients and th...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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DNV GL may do reaccreditation surveys remotely, other AOs decline

December 23, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

DNV GL Healthcare will conduct full, deemed reaccreditation surveys remotely, under certain conditions approved by CMS. Other accreditation organizations (AO) are declining to do so. But CMS says virt...

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How patient matching can help eliminate COVID-19 disparities in care

December 23, 2025

Patient Safety, Infection Control

Missing contact information on COVID-19 laboratory results prevents individuals with positive test results from quickly receiving needed treatment. It also heightens the risk that others will be expos...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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AAAHC issues COVID-19 risk prevention guidelines

December 23, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has released recommendations to help organizations safe...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, January 2021

December 23, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety

Subscribers, download this month's full PSMJ newsletter Not a subscriber yet? Sign up for a Basic of Platinum membership to gain access to all Patient Safety Monitor Journal and Inside Accreditat...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, January 2021

December 23, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter Not a subscriber yet? Sign up for a Basic of Platinum membership to gain access to all Patient Safety Monitor Journal and Inside Accreditati...

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Adopt a crisis command culture during the coronavirus pandemic

CMS creates web portal for questions about 1135 waivers, PHE

When you’ve done all you can do, what do you do?

Coronavirus vaccination: 4 best practices for communicating with patients

COVID ambassadors help thousands of patients talk with their families during isolation

DNV GL may do reaccreditation surveys remotely, other AOs decline

How patient matching can help eliminate COVID-19 disparities in care

AAAHC issues COVID-19 risk prevention guidelines

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, January 2021

Inside Accreditation and Quality, January 2021

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