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Be afraid, be very afraid…but do it anyway!

November 30, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Something of a mixed bag this week: Basically a couple of brief items with some interpolative commentary. First off, in what is probably not really...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, December 2020

December 19, 2025

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

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Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Public health emergency extended through January 21, 2021

December 19, 2025

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

From Part B News, a Simplify Compliance publication HHS Secretary Alex Azar has reauthorized the declaration of a public health emergency (PHE), meaning the PHE and its special rules and waivers fo...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Use these questions as you prepare for surveyors to visit

December 19, 2025

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

As promised, surveys are resuming across the country. And as promised, one of the main items of discussion is how well organizations have responded to the coronavirus pandemic—including their handling...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Earthquake safety for hospitals: Before, during, and after

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

While many view earthquakes as a West Coast issue, the truth is that 45 states and U.S. territories are at moderate to high risk for earthquakes. Some of this risk is from natural features like fault ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Coronavirus: Northwell's 10-step recipe for addressing patient surges

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

One of New York's largest health systems marshaled a range of resources and expertise to cope with the spring coronavirus surge. With coronavirus hospitalizations surging nationwide this fall, healthc...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Civil unrest while managing a pandemic: Lessons learned in Minnesota

November 04, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

This year has been brutal on many levels, especially in healthcare. There’s the coronavirus pandemic. The cold and snow of winter, the broiling heat of summer, the fury of hurricanes and wildfires, ea...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Saving money and water in healthcare

November 03, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors

With more droughts and heat waves expected in upcoming years, it’s time for hospitals and clinics to be more water-conscious Climate change is making the world hotter and drier, with more intense h...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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The difference between a COVID mask and a smoke mask

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, face masks have become ubiquitous (though occasionally controversial) in 2020—from N95 respirators to homemade masks made from bandanas and t-shirts. During the he...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Keeping wildfire smoke out of your facility

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

With over 100 fires destroying entire towns and displacing hundreds of thousands of people, 2020 was one of the worst wildfire seasons on record for the West Coast (see Healthcare under fire: Treating...

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Be afraid, be very afraid…but do it anyway!

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, December 2020

Public health emergency extended through January 21, 2021

Use these questions as you prepare for surveyors to visit

Earthquake safety for hospitals: Before, during, and after

Coronavirus: Northwell's 10-step recipe for addressing patient surges

Civil unrest while managing a pandemic: Lessons learned in Minnesota

Saving money and water in healthcare

The difference between a COVID mask and a smoke mask

Keeping wildfire smoke out of your facility

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