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Healthcare Safety Leader

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Follow these tips for before, during, and after next big storm

April 29, 2024

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Cybersecurity & Technology, Health Equity, Infection Control, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

The official start of hurricane season is almost here. Hurricanes, especially the monster storms, have taught American hospitals some big lessons, and if you haven’t put those lessons into your resili...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: How patients get involved, Part 1

April 08, 2024

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Behind every hospital-acquired infection (HAI) or medical error statistic is a patient. Through the efforts of people like Rosie Bartel and Linda McKinley, RN, BSN, MPH, CIC, FAPIC, strides have been ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Spring cleaning? Don’t forget to check supplies and devices for expiration dates

April 08, 2024

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Thinking about spring cleaning? Be sure to include clearing out drugs, biologicals, medical supplies, and devices that are expired, and to double-check that equipment maintenance for even the smallest...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Peer review in the primary care setting

December 13, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Ensuring you have competent physicians who are providing high-quality care is essential to the success of any healthcare organization. To evaluate physician care, hospitals and medical staffs have spe...

Medical Environment Update

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Making your laboratory a high reliability organization

December 13, 2025

Laboratory Safety, Quality & Errors

You can never be too reliable, especially when you work in biosafety and handle hazardous chemicals all day. Becoming a high reliability organization (HRO) has been a goal of many hospitals and labora...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Review medication security as high-profile incidents focus AOs on drug diversion

December 13, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Review security measures designed to stop drug diversion, and educate staff and providers about how to dispose properly of unused controlled substances. ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Inside CMS validation surveys: Strategies for consistent healthcare quality

December 13, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

With the advent of side-by-side validation surveys, healthcare accreditation leaders have quickly realized that they need to be thoroughly prepared for all types of surveys every day, now more than ev...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Monitor your accreditation compliance continuously

January 22, 2024

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Continuous readiness, including a mock survey approach that fully integrates the tracer methodology, is a good way to take a snapshot of the organization’s compliance, remind staff of the survey proce...

Medical Environment Update

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Pillars of prevention: the critical role of oversight committees in combating drug diversion

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Quality & Errors

The establishment of a drug diversion oversight committee is critical for healthcare facilities. As the healthcare industry grapples with the imperative to mitigate the unauthorized use or misappropri...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac’s Safety Space: Compliance versus convenience—what’s the winning combination?

December 13, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Physical environment, Quality & Errors

When you look at a lot of the “traditional” conditions that end up presenting during survey—propped doors, unsecured or improperly segregated gas cylinders, obstructed access to emergency equipment, s...

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Follow these tips for before, during, and after next big storm

Q&A: How patients get involved, Part 1

Spring cleaning? Don’t forget to check supplies and devices for expiration dates

Peer review in the primary care setting

Making your laboratory a high reliability organization

Review medication security as high-profile incidents focus AOs on drug diversion

Inside CMS validation surveys: Strategies for consistent healthcare quality

Monitor your accreditation compliance continuously

Pillars of prevention: the critical role of oversight committees in combating drug diversion

Mac’s Safety Space: Compliance versus convenience—what’s the winning combination?

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