Start evaluating staffing levels and develop a plan for educating your workforce on new CMS and OSHA worker COVID-19 vaccine mandates that could impact staffing shortages at hospitals and other health facilities.
When it gets too hot or cold in most buildings, you’re expected to put on a jacket, turn on a fan, or just deal with it. That’s not an option for healthcare facilities and laboratories, which must maintain a consistent indoor temperature regardless of outdoor conditions.
Understanding the ins and outs of accreditation and compliance can be overwhelming for first time managers. Maybe someone took time to explain the job. Or maybe they just pointed at a manual and said, “good luck.”
Like any other job in a hospital, it takes education, time, and creativity...
Telehealth stakeholders are asking the Biden Administration to provide guidance on the anticipated end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency while also calling for the extension of the PHE and its telehealth provisions through the end of 2022.
