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Inside Accreditation and Quality, January 2021

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

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Survey: Nurses need more EM training, education

February 12, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

In addition to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the United States and the world continues to be challenged by disasters, such as droughts, earthquakes, fires, floods, severe weather events, and terroris...

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Consider telehealth options for deaf patients, with follow up plan

February 12, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Cybersecurity & Technology

The public health emergency (PHE) related to COVID-19 would seem to have added some barriers to treatment of hearing-impaired patients. As telehealth use has exploded during the PHE, there’s now a new...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Demand for COVID vaccines expected to get heated, and fast

February 12, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Quality & Errors

With two promising vaccines primed for release, likely within weeks, experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even he...

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PSMF renews efforts to improve patient safety in hospitals

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

After several years of focusing on smaller improvements to eliminate preventable patient deaths, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) is thinking big. The group recently announced a new goal ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

February 12, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

On September 11, 2020, an elderly woman in Germany was rushed to the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm. However, when the ambulance arrived at UKD, they disc...

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Report: After 20 years, why isn’t patient safety better?

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

“Despite concerted efforts to improve patient safety over the past 20 years, patients continue to experience high-severity injury outcomes,” wrote lead author Ann Burke, RN, CPHRM, CPPS, senior direct...

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Relying on “old school” methods during a ransomware attack

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

When your facility can’t access its medical records, operate its equipment, and properly care for patients, that’s not a problem—it’s an emergency, said Kelly Proctor, CHFM, CHSP, CHOP, director of op...

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Making breast cancer treatment less invasive

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Evidence indicates that for patients with low risk and good prognosis, localized treatment with targeted intraoperative radiotherapy (TARGIT) may be equally as effective as standard radiation, with po...

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HHS is looking for your pandemic success stories

November 25, 2020

Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Hundreds, if not thousands, of clinicians, facility engineers, healthcare systems and other care providers have been forced to get creative in order to deal with the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic...

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, January 2021

Survey: Nurses need more EM training, education

Consider telehealth options for deaf patients, with follow up plan

Demand for COVID vaccines expected to get heated, and fast

PSMF renews efforts to improve patient safety in hospitals

Hackers legally off the hook in patient’s death but maybe not in future

Report: After 20 years, why isn’t patient safety better?

Relying on “old school” methods during a ransomware attack

Making breast cancer treatment less invasive

HHS is looking for your pandemic success stories

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