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CMS issues maternal morbidity and COVID-19 worker vaccination reporting requirements

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety, Infection Control

CMS is adding a maternal morbidity quality measure as well as a reporting requirement on COVID-19 vaccination rates among hospital and long-term care hospital workers as part of a 2,295-page inpatient...

Mac's Safety Space

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Making movies on location…

August 02, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant One of the constants of any effective physical environment/safety program is the effort to ensure that folks at point-of-care/point-of-service are pro...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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The dangers of violence are still here: Realities, risks, and prevention

December 21, 2025

Workplace safety

Violence against healthcare workers still persists, despite many efforts to combat it. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the incidence of violence-related healthcare worker injuries h...

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Nurses urge CDC to reinstate universal masking

December 21, 2025

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...

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Night time in the switching yard: Listen to the train(ing) whistle whine

July 19, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I suspect that, amongst all the other things that have been pounding on the metaphorical rooftops, you saw the updated guidance from OSHA relating to ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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PTSD: There is help for patients—and providers

December 21, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Workplace safety, Infection Control

PTSD occurs after a person experiences or witnesses a highly stressful or upsetting event. Patients can also develop PTSD secondhand, from close contact with people who’ve also undergone the trauma. T...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Review workplace violence prevention programs against new TJC standards

December 21, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Health Equity, Workplace safety

Take another look at your workplace violence prevention (WVP) policies and procedures now that The Joint Commission (TJC) has formally published new and revised standards that will be effective Januar...

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Protection is improvement, improvement is protection: Keeping folks safe from workplace violence

July 12, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant When it comes to the management of workplace violence considerations, I think we all have experienced the many, many ways in which these risks can man...

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Should OSHA's new COVID-19 protections become permanent? Comment until August 20

July 12, 2021

Workplace safety, Infection Control

OSHA will take comments until August 20 on an emergency temporary standard to set COVID-19 worker protection requirements that the federal agency is considering making permanent. ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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More OSHA scrutiny on healthcare organizations, expanded whistleblower protections

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety, Infection Control

In March, OSHA issued its Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The updates extend existing OSHA protections for workplace safety whistleblowers, explicitl...

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CMS issues maternal morbidity and COVID-19 worker vaccination reporting requirements

Making movies on location…

The dangers of violence are still here: Realities, risks, and prevention

Nurses urge CDC to reinstate universal masking

Night time in the switching yard: Listen to the train(ing) whistle whine

PTSD: There is help for patients—and providers

Review workplace violence prevention programs against new TJC standards

Protection is improvement, improvement is protection: Keeping folks safe from workplace violence

Should OSHA's new COVID-19 protections become permanent? Comment until August 20

More OSHA scrutiny on healthcare organizations, expanded whistleblower protections

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