Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
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Volume
13
Issue
10
December 20, 2025
The attack from a criminal syndicate in Eastern Europe was initiated through the emergency backup facility used by the 71-staffed-bed hospital many miles away, and it had infected many, if not all its...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
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Volume
20
Issue
3
December 20, 2025
In January 2009, all eyes were on the Hudson River when a plane flying out of New York’s LaGuardia Airport crash-landed in the river after striking a flock of geese. Thanks to fast acting by the pilot...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality
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Volume
30
Issue
3
December 20, 2025
It’s been one year since Hurricane Harvey struck Houston, flooding the city and displacing tens of thousands of people. In one week, the Category 4 storm dropped 61 inches of rain and caused $125 bill...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality
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Volume
30
Issue
3
December 20, 2025
The ECRI Institute published its annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards facing healthcare in 2019. Longtime readers will recognize several hazards from ECRI’s 2018 and 2017 lists, such as...
Mac's Safety Space
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Volume
13
Issue
2
February 20, 2019
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant
Moving on to the rest of the guidance document (it still lives here), I did want to note one last item relative to emergency power: There is an expect...
Mac's Safety Space
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Volume
13
Issue
2
February 14, 2019
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant
Imagine that!
The turn of February brought with it the latest epistle from our friends at CMS as they continue to noodle on the preparedness of the...
Mac's Safety Space
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Volume
13
Issue
1
January 31, 2019
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant
Particularly for smaller facilities (or, I suppose, big places with multiple generators), consistently meeting the requirement for a 30% load during m...