Artificial intelligence is increasingly impacting healthcare safety and compliance, offering tools for improving patient care and operational efficiency. Troy Lair, PhD, principal consultant of Elite Accreditation Consultants, caught up with Medical Environment Update for a Q&A on how AI is...
You have to know where you shut them off—make sure you label those shutoff valves!
That’s one of the pearls of wisdom dispensed during the most recent Executive Briefings by our friends in Chicago. It appears that there’s been a run on unlabeled shutoff valves during this year’s surveys,...
In May, the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) introduced its revised Long-Term Care Dialysis (LTCD) Certification, offering a new level of recognition for providers delivering dialysis services in long-term care and skilled nursing facilities. This certification is available to all...
In this Q&A, Darren Osleger, a consultant for Jensen Hughes with expertise in the surgical world, shares his insights on fire safety in hospital environments. Osleger discusses the importance of comprehensive fire risk assessments, effective communication among surgical...
One of my favorite comic book story arcs is a miniseries called The Watchmen. In the story, the superheroes get a bit out of control and a common phrase emerges from the people: “Who watches the Watchmen?” The idea makes me think about how safety issues in labs can sometimes occur...
I apologize for not pushing this out a few weeks earlier than now—I’m writing this a few days after Daylight Savings Time, so my brain is wonky and erasing my thoughts like an Etch A Sketch (you all know about that, yes? If not, this will...
When there isn’t an immediate consequence to an unsafe behavior, in the laboratory or elsewhere, people can easily mistake “nothing bad happened” with “nothing bad will ever happen.” This leads to normalized deviance, where laboratory safety policies and standard operating procedures (SOP) are...
This is part two of our interview with Kurt Patton, MS, RPH, founder of Patton Healthcare Consulting and a former director of accreditation services for The Joint Commission (TJC), on conducting mock or preparatory surveys.
I will admit that I’ve been sitting on this one for a couple of months as I have no interest in sensationalizing any acts of violence, even inadvertently. But it also seems like not too much time passes before firearm violence (yet again) makes front page news, so I guess this topic may be more...
Workplace violence in healthcare is an escalating concern, as highlighted by recent reports and studies that expose the alarming trends affecting healthcare workers across the United States.
