Surveyors tend to focus on what is new to the mix, which means you should have completed the first go-round of the workplace analysis relative to the management of workplace violence risks in your organization.
Review fire and evacuation drills to ensure you can get all patients and visitors out without injury or death, just as a Massachusetts hospital did on Tuesday, February 7, after a transformer caught fire in the basement of a connecting building.
Most organizations agree that ending avoidable disparities and harm in healthcare is not just a social concern, but a patient safety one as well—one that will require strong, engaged, and committed leadership.
At the end of the IHI’s presentation, viewers were able to ask some leadership...
In 2016, because of several incidents in national high-containment laboratories, a “safety stand-down” was recommended. That term gets used often, but not everyone understands how a safety stand-down works. Has your department been in a similar situation? Have you encountered a series of similar...
Expect more patients in the emergency room (ER) seeking help with behavioral health issues when the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) ends—especially if the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) does not act to renew PHE-related flexibilities allowing prescriptions of controlled substances...
OSHA inspectors were among those who responded to the site to conduct an investigation when a worker died after falling several stories from the roof of a...
Originally, I had planned this for sometime in January, but suddenly I find myself on the cusp of February and the “packing up the decorations” conversation is way past due.
