Patients with psychiatric illness can spend lengthy periods of time in emergency departments waiting for psychiatric evaluation or transfer to an inpatient psychiatric facility. Earlier research found that the mean length of stay (LOS) for psychiatric patients in emergency departments awaiting...
Clinicians need to take a multipronged approach to communicating with their patients about coronavirus vaccination, a Yale New Haven Health expert says. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the country, vaccination is a key implement in the public health toolbox. Vaccination is widely viewed...
The Joint Commission is asking for feedback on proposed changes to hospital requirements on resuscitation and the long-awaited new elements of performance on workplace violence prevention.
When civil unrest outside your doors threatens to come inside, be sure staff are trained on screening protocols for identifying people who should not be in your healthcare facility or on your property.
Missing contact information on COVID-19 laboratory results prevents individuals with positive test results from quickly receiving needed treatment. It also heightens the risk that others will be exposed to the coronavirus. Yet this exact problem has played out repeatedly in 2020. ...
Following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has released recommendations to help organizations safely navigate the evolving stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on steps to identify...
CMS continues to work with accreditation organizations (AOs) on providing some remote flexibilities in conducting surveys. But only through the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).
ASTM International, a standards-setting organization formerly known as The American Society for Testing and Materials, is developing a new specification for face coverings. The Centers for Disease Control and...
