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Public Health Emergency is Extended: Blanket Waivers Continue for Now

December 29, 2025

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

Now that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has again renewed the official declaration of a public health emergency (PHE) related to the 2019 novel coronavirus, hospitals and other pr...

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Inform, reassure, and reduce anxiety during COVID-19

December 29, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

Here are areas where your facility can work to ease patients’ safety concerns during the pandemic. They come from Colleen McCrory, MBA, FACHE, a coach in Huron’s Studer Group advisory firm with 19 yea...

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CMS, CDC Create Provider Payment for COVID-19 Counseling

December 29, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Infection Control

Physicians and other healthcare providers will now be paid to counsel patients about the importance of self-isolation after testing for COVID-19, even before test results are known, the Centers for Me...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Money woes and distance: Patient stressors during the COVID-19 era

December 29, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

As of this writing, the novel 2019 coronavirus has infected over 4.6 million Americans and killed over 155,000. Unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression, and experts predict mas...

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, August 2020

December 29, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Workplace safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, August 2020

December 29, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter ...

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Researchers Examine Death Risks for Coronavirus Patients in ICUs

December 29, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Infection Control

New research has linked several factors with risk of death in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Coronavirus fears drive medication adherence ups and downs

December 29, 2025

Patient Safety, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

The cost of poor medication adherence is tremendous—nearly $177 billion each year in direct and indirect healthcare costs—but the cost of nonadherence during the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to...

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Coronavirus Antibodies Drop Precipitously 3 Months After Mild Cases

December 29, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

The prevalence of antibodies for people recovering from a mild cases of COVID-19 dropped precipitously after less than three months, according to a research letter published this week in The New Engla...

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HHS Presses Hospitals to Use New COVID-19 Data Reporting Modules

December 29, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 module will no longer be an option for daily reporting, effective July 15, the Department of Health and Human...

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Public Health Emergency is Extended: Blanket Waivers Continue for Now

Inform, reassure, and reduce anxiety during COVID-19

CMS, CDC Create Provider Payment for COVID-19 Counseling

Money woes and distance: Patient stressors during the COVID-19 era

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, August 2020

Inside Accreditation and Quality, August 2020

Researchers Examine Death Risks for Coronavirus Patients in ICUs

Coronavirus fears drive medication adherence ups and downs

Coronavirus Antibodies Drop Precipitously 3 Months After Mild Cases

HHS Presses Hospitals to Use New COVID-19 Data Reporting Modules

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