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‘Hope is not a plan’: Points to consider for a season of COVID-19 plus flu

December 19, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Workplace safety, Infection Control

Keep assessing how you triage your COVID-19 and influenza patients as the flu season escalates, and include facilities management as well as clinicians and other staff in the continuing discussion. Ma...

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, September 2020

December 19, 2025

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

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Use of force in healthcare

December 19, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

As the nation continues to discuss use of force by law enforcement, healthcare organizations must have their own discussions on how force is applied on their grounds. There are no simple solutions for...

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Tool: Use agenda template to keep your HICS meetings on track

December 19, 2025

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

Modify this template of an incident command meeting agenda for your organization, to help you keep your hospital incident command system (HICS) planning on track, especially if you are managing multip...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Beware of fraud when searching to bolster supplies in a crisis

August 11, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

When trying to procure necessary supplies during a disaster or emergency, be aware of potential fraud, document all your contracting activities, and ensure staff are trained and up-to-date on your fac...

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Protect your longterm supply chain: Don’t hoard, just order what you need

August 11, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety

As the COVID-19 surge continues through its second wave and collides with influenza season as well as hurricanes, wildfires, or whatever natural disasters the year still has in store, supply experts h...

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Public Health Emergency is Extended: Blanket Waivers Continue for Now

December 19, 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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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How to update your restraint and seclusion policy

December 19, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Leadership & Finance, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, CADC, ICRC, a national behavioral health consultant with years of experience in hospital settings and now the director of evidence-based practices and programs for W...

Mac's Safety Space

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Emergency management in (you guessed it) ambulatory healthcare

July 20, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I was really, really, really thinking that I’d be able to glom on to some other subject matter this week (which I suppose it partially true), but it w...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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California hospitals plan for power outages

December 19, 2025

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

Last October, PG&E shut off power to more than 248 hospitals and millions of customers to prevent uncontrolled power outages during the region’s powerful Santa Ana winds. The winds have a tendency...

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‘Hope is not a plan’: Points to consider for a season of COVID-19 plus flu

Inside Accreditation and Quality, September 2020

Use of force in healthcare

Tool: Use agenda template to keep your HICS meetings on track

Beware of fraud when searching to bolster supplies in a crisis

Protect your longterm supply chain: Don’t hoard, just order what you need

Public Health Emergency is Extended: Blanket Waivers Continue for Now

How to update your restraint and seclusion policy

Emergency management in (you guessed it) ambulatory healthcare

California hospitals plan for power outages

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