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Mac's Safety Space

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If there weren’t challenges…

May 24, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant …it really wouldn’t be an event that requires emergency response. Somehow over the last little while, the fundamental nature of what constitutes an...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Check your state’s pandemic plan to make sure 1135 waivers don’t conflict with those requirements

May 11, 2021

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

Be sure to review any federal 1135 blanket waivers against your state's requirements to make sure you've met compliance expectations. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Take me to your leaders

May 17, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I believe that we’ll be able to wrap up the emergency management stuff next week—though I have one or two ideas percolating that I might move to the f...

Mac's Safety Space

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You better? You bet!

May 10, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant It would seem that while the rest of the world has been busy responding to a pandemic, the folks behind the scenes have been working on identifying th...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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How to be a high reliability organization during a crisis

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

How important is maintaining high reliability organization (HRO) principles and values during a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic? Can a clinic or hospital reasonably become an HRO when dealing with a...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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ONC Coordinator Outlines New Vistas for Telehealth, Unblocked Health Records, and Patient ID

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control

Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, who holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, took the reins of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Hea...

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Tips for Opening a Field Hospital During the Coronavirus Pandemic

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

The recent journal article, which was published by Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, features the planning effort for a 500-bed field hospital at Michigan Medicine—the health system affiliated with t...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Winter storm in Texas tests concept of ‘all-hazards planning’

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

As an experienced trauma nurse with a master’s degree in emergency management, Lori Upton has been through a lot of disasters in the Houston area. She’s experienced the hurricanes and tropical stor...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Plan care for dialysis patients and others stranded in a disaster

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures

Work with your regional healthcare coalition and Health and Human Services (HHS) to identify the number of dialysis and other vulnerable patients who might show up needing critical services if water a...

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FDA says to decrease reuse of devices, CMS removes some blanket waivers

April 09, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Be aware that as COVID-19 cases decline and vaccination rates climb, the emergency waivers and measures approved to get through the public health emergency will be changing. ...

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If there weren’t challenges…

Check your state’s pandemic plan to make sure 1135 waivers don’t conflict with those requirements

Take me to your leaders

You better? You bet!

How to be a high reliability organization during a crisis

ONC Coordinator Outlines New Vistas for Telehealth, Unblocked Health Records, and Patient ID

Tips for Opening a Field Hospital During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Winter storm in Texas tests concept of ‘all-hazards planning’

Plan care for dialysis patients and others stranded in a disaster

FDA says to decrease reuse of devices, CMS removes some blanket waivers

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