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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff

“Often the work drives us together, but again, then it gets to that difference between ‘we connect when we have to because the work demands it’ versus ‘we’re intentional in the team construct and we m...

Medical Environment Update

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Lab Safety Man: Get leadership to act on lab safety issues

December 13, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Laboratory Safety, Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety

As a lab safety professional, it can be frustrating to see safety issues go unattended, especially after they have been reported. The apparent roadblocks to solutions may be a lack of funds, busy or d...

Medical Environment Update

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Part 2: Heidi Raines on sustaining a culture of safety

December 13, 2025

Laboratory Safety, Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff

This is the second part of our interview with Heidi Raines, the CEO and founder of Performance Health Partners and author of “Shared Voices: A Framework for Patient and Employee Safety in Healthcare“ ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Improving patient outcomes with purposefully designed patient engagement systems

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Today’s healthcare landscape and patient expectations continue to change, and at the same time, the standard of optimizing healthcare performance has developed beyond the Triple Aim (enhancing the pat...

Medical Environment Update

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Part 1: Heidi Raines on sustaining a culture of safety

December 13, 2025

Physical environment, Leadership & Finance, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff, Workplace safety

Creating and sustaining a culture of safety has been a challenge for many healthcare organizations, but the objective value in having one can’t be overstated. Organizations like the Institute for Heal...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Part 2: Heidi Raines on sustaining a culture of safety

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Appellate court: Patient safety concerns led to loss of surgical privileges

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (the “Court”) affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a physician’s claim of age discrimination against the health system in which he was empl...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Environmental sustainability projects are possible—and may soon be expected

May 09, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance

Showing potential cost savings, along with communication and being flexible, can be instrumental in getting buy-in on environmental sustainability projects for your organization. Soon, efforts to addr...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Review OSHA training requirements and refresh staff education

April 18, 2023

Climate Change, Fire & Life Safety, Healthcare Staff, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

Remember to review OSHA staff training requirements—and keep in mind that state requirements may be more stringent. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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The Joint Commission proposes standard to tackle hospital impact on climate change

March 23, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance

Hospitals may soon have to measure energy use, fleet vehicle gas consumption, solid waste disposal, and other measures under proposed climate change standards by The Joint Commission. ...

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Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

Lab Safety Man: Get leadership to act on lab safety issues

Part 2: Heidi Raines on sustaining a culture of safety

Improving patient outcomes with purposefully designed patient engagement systems

Part 1: Heidi Raines on sustaining a culture of safety

Part 2: Heidi Raines on sustaining a culture of safety

Appellate court: Patient safety concerns led to loss of surgical privileges

Environmental sustainability projects are possible—and may soon be expected

Review OSHA training requirements and refresh staff education

The Joint Commission proposes standard to tackle hospital impact on climate change

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