Sepsis is a problem that won’t go away. Globally, one in five deaths are caused by sepsis. In U.S. hospitals, sepsis is the leading cause of death and hospital readmissions. The condition...
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1
Training and education in any professional role can help individuals improve their skills and learning competencies. Training and education opportunities, however, often get sidelined by day-to-day duties and lost in performance reviews. That should not be the case, and certainly when it comes...
Check manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU) as well as nationally recognized standards when updating your policy on the regular maintenance and cleaning of washing machines and dryers used for patient belongings.
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...
In the 1964 classic movie Mothra versus Godzilla (released in the U.S. as Godzilla vs. the Thing), a giant egg is washed ashore in Japan after a hurricane. Godzilla finds the egg and tries to break it, but when it hatches, twin giant worms are released that spell disaster for the title monster....
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1
While there are many Life Safety Code®(LSC) violations identified throughout an accreditation survey, many of them are “low hanging fruit” and some of the most common findings, according to Lance Woolf, MBA, CHSP, former life safety surveyor for The Joint...
Check manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU) as well as nationally recognized standards when updating your policy on the regular maintenance and cleaning of washing machines and dryers used for patient belongings.
Surveyor concerns will be about infection control (IC), says ...
