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How to create a safety protocol for emergency department psychiatric patients

December 19, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

Patients with psychiatric illness can spend lengthy periods of time in emergency departments waiting for psychiatric evaluation or transfer to an inpatient psychiatric facility. Earlier research found...

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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. ...

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Survey: Nurses need more EM training, education

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

In addition to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the United States and the world continues to be challenged by disasters, such as droughts, earthquakes, fires, floods, severe weather events, and terroris...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Mental, behavioral, and community health during a crisis

December 19, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Natural & Manmade Disasters

An emergency that impacts the community your facility serves also impacts your healthcare providers. Physicians, nurses, and other care staff have families and friends they worry about. You’ll have be...

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More threats from climate change on healthcare in 2021 and beyond

December 19, 2025

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

As we enter 2021, experts widely expect that climate change and environmental damage will take an increasing toll on health and healthcare. And as our environment changes, hospitals and clinics need t...

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Demand for COVID vaccines expected to get heated, and fast

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

With two promising vaccines primed for release, likely within weeks, experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even he...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

On September 11, 2020, an elderly woman in Germany was rushed to the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm. However, when the ambulance arrived at UKD, they disc...

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2021 promises changes and challenges as hospitals meet the PHE head on

December 19, 2025

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

Expect emergency preparedness and infection control to remain front and center during accreditation and compliance surveys for the immediate future as 2021 starts much the way most of 2020 played out-...

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Relying on “old school” methods during a ransomware attack

December 19, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

When your facility can’t access its medical records, operate its equipment, and properly care for patients, that’s not a problem—it’s an emergency, said Kelly Proctor, CHFM, CHSP, CHOP, director of op...

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New CMS ‘flexibilities’ aim to expand hospital capacity

November 30, 2020

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

The federal government has unveiled new “flexibilities” that include allowances for providing hospital care in patients’ homes and waiving some staffing requirements at ambulatory surgery centers as p...

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How to create a safety protocol for emergency department psychiatric patients

CMS creates web portal for questions about 1135 waivers, PHE

Survey: Nurses need more EM training, education

Mental, behavioral, and community health during a crisis

More threats from climate change on healthcare in 2021 and beyond

Demand for COVID vaccines expected to get heated, and fast

Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

2021 promises changes and challenges as hospitals meet the PHE head on

Relying on “old school” methods during a ransomware attack

New CMS ‘flexibilities’ aim to expand hospital capacity

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