In case you missed it, here’s a compilation of breaking news from the Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center since Healthcare Safety Leader was last published.
In the upcoming year, surveys will include new standards, revised requirements, modified processes and procedures, and a continued focus on infection control and fire safety. However, none of that promises to be more difficult than facing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unfortunately, there will...
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1
There’s nothing simple about running a healthcare facility. With complex moving parts creating an operationally challenging environment, hospitals can’t afford to be inefficient or lag behind. How healthcare organizations use resources today is key to how they will evolve into the future....
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1
Even pre-pandemic, hospitals were prime targets for hackers and other online threats. That condition has only grown worse over the past 18 months, with vaccine infrastructure becoming a tempting target for bad actors in addition to hospital systems’ continuing vulnerability to ransomware attacks...
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1
The first time in any job can be hard, but learning the ins and outs of survey compliance in facilities management—with standards on top of regulations on top of local requirements on top of state requirements—can be overwhelming.
We asked some experienced survey and safety experts what...
Real-time visibility into patient care beyond the acute care setting is more important than ever. Hospitals are more reliant on ambulatory care providers as part of the patient’s care journey, and the quality of patient outcomes depends on collaboration between hospitals, postacute providers,...
An estimated 47.9 million adults—more than 19% of the population—provide informal care for an adult in their lives. What goes on outside of the hospital or...
The new, temporarily suspended CMS interim final rule (IFR) that requires staff vaccinations against COVID-19 will supersede state or local laws or orders that prevent vaccine mandates, notes Marge McFarlane, PhD, MT(ASCP), CHFM, CHSP, CJCP, HEM, MEP, with Superior Performance...
Located in the Mojave Desert, Ridgecrest Regional Hospital in Ridgecrest, California, is a critical access hospital that is closer to Las Vegas than it is a major earthquake fault line. Still, there have been minor temblors, so an earthquake had been on their list of potential emergency events...
