The Joint Commission has released a new Quick Safety advisory to address intimate partner violence (IPV), which has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to healthcare providers.
The threat of cybersecurity attacks is still the top technological threat to healthcare organizations, according to the ECRI Institute. But a problem cause by the two-year-old pandemic isn’t that far behind.
The Pennsylvania-based non-profit, which analyzes the safety, quality and cost-...
Look for CMS and accrediting organizations to start fully enforcing the agency’s recent interim rule requiring all staff at hospitals and other healthcare facilities to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 after the Supreme Court stayed an injunction that barred implementation. Meanwhile, the...
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...
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 ...
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...
DNV has announced that it will conduct its annual NIAHO® surveys remotely at least through the end of February. The triennial onsite surveys will continue onsite.
During the coronavirus pandemic, the failure to elevate the role of primary care providers on the frontline alongside public health officials has resulted in several missed opportunities to respond to the crisis, a ...
