CRM has two main parts. The first deals with teamwork and communication and covers the interpersonal and social aspects of the working environment. The second deals with human factors and situational awareness and entails understanding physical and cognitive...
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1
No healthcare professional needs to be reminded of the risks and elevated threats of violence during tense moments with patients and their families, especially in a pandemic.
With continuing stress on patients and staff members from all corners as we head into the new year, a sound...
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-...
In 2022, CMS plans to restart its pilot project to improve validation surveys but is likely to continue pressure on accrediting organizations (AO) to be more vigilant in finding deficiencies in physical environment (PE), infection control (IC), fire safety, and patients’ rights.
CMS is taking up the mantle along with The Joint Commission (TJC) to improve the safety of maternity patients who are at risk for pregnancy and postpartum complications.
I suspect that this is going to be a rather brief entry (but, if I’m honest, I usually think that and then…) as it is (yet another!) entry in the “the goal of the survey...
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...
Healthcare Safety Leader asked Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance and a consultant and expert on the Life Safety Code®, for tips about safety and compliance with washing machines and dryers in patient laundry rooms in...
After years of decline, 2020 and 2021 saw record rises in U.S. drug overdose deaths. In the 12-month period that ended in April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses, an increase of nearly 30% from the prior year, according to provisional figures ...
