Policies and Procedures | .accreditationqualitycenter

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

Issue

Q&A: What’s different about working with LEP and ESL patients?

February 12, 2026

Health Equity, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

Language shouldn’t be a barrier to good healthcare. Hospitals, clinics, and healthcare providers are required to offer interpretation services to anyone who walks in their door, be they English as a s...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

Issue

Why pandemic-initiated safety protocols are here to stay

February 12, 2026

Infection Control, Policies and Procedures

The pandemic drove healthcare providers and vendors to take an even closer look at facility entrances: who enters a facility, how they come in, and how they leave. On a typical, pre-pandemic day, vend...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

AHA supports mandatory vaccinations for healthcare workers

July 22, 2021

Policies and Procedures, Infection Control

The American Hospital Association is supporting mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare personnel. It is also offering hospitals and health systems public service announcements and other resource m...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

Nurses urge CDC to reinstate universal masking

February 12, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Infection Control, Workplace safety

The United States is seeing a 16% increase in daily new cases over the previous week and more than 40 states have an increase in daily new cases over the previous two weeks as well as 25 states seeing...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

University hospitals exec: ‘Healthcare is riddled with mindless variation’

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, is the chief quality and clinical transformation officer at University Hospitals. The critical care physician has a global reputation as a patient safety champion, including ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

Hospitals cut 5.5K jobs in June

February 12, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Infection Control

The healthcare sector has shed 537,000 jobs since the start of the pandemic in February 2020, with hospitals accounting for 102,000 job losses, and nursing homes accounting for 360,000 job losses. Amb...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

Refusals, safety concerns impeded nurses' efforts to mobilize intubated patients

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

Critical care nurses frequently did not mobilize intubated patients receiving mechanical ventilation because the patient was uncooperative, according to a new study published in American Journal of Cr...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

Issue

Patient experience is key element in quality improvement initiatives

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Patient experience is a valuable element of addressing patient safety incidents and conducting quality improvement initiatives. After decades of operating with provider-centric care, healthcare org...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

Issue

The moments in between: Monitoring patients in transit

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

It happens more than we’d like: Patients require transport from one area to another, be it from their room to an imaging lab or to the ICU, and somewhere along that trek—in a hallway, an elevator—they...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

New Toolkit Aids Nurse Leaders in Reestablishing Family-Presence Policies

February 12, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

A new decision-making tool to help nurse leaders re-start family-presence policies that balance safety with a patient’s emotional need for family was released Tuesday. The Family Presence Policy De...

Subscribe to Policies and Procedures

Q&A: What’s different about working with LEP and ESL patients?

Why pandemic-initiated safety protocols are here to stay

AHA supports mandatory vaccinations for healthcare workers

Nurses urge CDC to reinstate universal masking

University hospitals exec: ‘Healthcare is riddled with mindless variation’

Hospitals cut 5.5K jobs in June

Refusals, safety concerns impeded nurses' efforts to mobilize intubated patients

Patient experience is key element in quality improvement initiatives

The moments in between: Monitoring patients in transit

New Toolkit Aids Nurse Leaders in Reestablishing Family-Presence Policies

Resource/w tools selected

STET CMS & tools

OSHA Dental Facilities Update - November 2023

OSHA Medical Facilities Update - November 2023

Tab 2, Medical Facilities OSHA Manual- August 2023

Tab 2, Dental Facility OSHA Manual- August 2023

Chapter 2: Chapter Format and Tracer Planning