Articles

Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1

Put healthcare life safety compliance training and education front and center

January 18, 2022
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Fire & Life Safety

Training and education in any professional role can help individuals improve their skills and learning competencies. Training and education opportunities, however, often get sidelined by day-to-day duties and lost in performance reviews. That should not be the case, and certainly when it comes...

Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 4, Issue 1

Double check infection control and fire safety with onsite laundry rooms

January 18, 2022
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Check manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU) as well as nationally recognized standards when updating your policy on the regular maintenance and cleaning of washing machines and dryers used for patient belongings.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

TJC, CMS issue guidance on COVID-19 vaccine requirement

January 17, 2022
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Update your policies on vaccines and make sure the changes are approved before your next survey now that CMS, The Joint Commission (TJC), and the other accrediting organizations are going forward with enforcing the Biden administration’s requirement for healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated...

Mac's Safety Space - Volume 16, Issue 1

Everything old is new again – lucky to have the work…

January 17, 2022
Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

While it seems that most of the world is trying to wish away the pandemic, healthcare continues to “fight the good fight” in this longest of...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Newest PHE renewal marks entry into third year of pandemic

January 14, 2022
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

For the eighth time since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national public health emergency (PHE), the secretary of Health and Human Services has ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Supreme Court hears emergency arguments on CMS, OSHA vaccine requirements

January 11, 2022
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Supreme Court justices hearing emergency arguments about an injunction stopping enforcement of a CMS interim final rule requiring hospital and other healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 seemed...

Medical Environment Update - Volume 32, Issue 1

Opening a safety can of worms

January 11, 2022
Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

In the 1964 classic movie Mothra versus Godzilla (released in the U.S. as Godzilla vs. the Thing), a giant egg is washed ashore in Japan after a hurricane. Godzilla finds the egg and tries to break it, but when it hatches, twin giant worms are released that spell disaster for the title monster....

Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1

Top Life Safety Code violations and how to address them

January 11, 2022
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Fire & Life Safety

While there are many Life Safety Code® (LSC) violations identified throughout an accreditation survey, many of them are “low hanging fruit” and some of the most common findings, according to Lance Woolf, MBA, CHSP, former life safety surveyor for The Joint...

Healthcare Safety Leader - Volume 30, Issue 1

Double check infection control and fire safety with onsite laundry rooms

January 11, 2022
Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Fire & Life Safety

Check manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU) as well as nationally recognized standards when updating your policy on the regular maintenance and cleaning of washing machines and dryers used for patient belongings.

Surveyor concerns will be about infection control (IC), says ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 23, Issue 1

Mental shortcuts, fallacies, and patient harm: How we make healthcare decisions drives patient outcomes

January 11, 2022
Quality & Errors

Do you ever think about how you think, or come to conclusions, or make decisions? It’s a Philosophy 101 question, but in the healthcare context it means examining how we make assumptions, skip steps, ignore details, and use flawed reasoning when diagnosing or treating a patient. And all those...

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