As the fight against COVID-19 presses on, patient safety remains a key focus in healthcare conversations around the world. In March 2020, the pandemic forced healthcare providers to quickly pivot existing care strategies and infection control protocols to address the influx of COVID-19 patients...
The last few months of managing a pandemic have exhausted you. But you still need to prepare for that upcoming survey, whenever it happens, whether it’s a virtual review or an on-site visit.
Start by taking a look back at your last survey report as well as last year’s environment of care...
CMS announced in 2019 that, in an attempt to address complaints that hospital surveys to validate findings by accreditation organizations (AO) were done too long after the fact and that facilities were faced with double survey duty, it would test a program to conduct its work at the same time...
One Iowa nurse quoted in the publication explained in stark terms how the continuing onslaught of COVID-19 is pushing nurses and other frontline healthcare workers beyond physical exhaustion and inflicting emotional damage on those who care for patients.
One of the more common findings (as it were) over the past few years has been the condition in which a circuit breaker is in the “on” position and it is...
Healthcare providers can now sign up for a ASSE training course on core water pathogen competencies such as environmental testing, risk assessment, water safety and management programs, mitigation and remediation methods, construction and renovation, and case investigation. The online course...
Expect accrediting organizations (AO) to get even tougher on problems found within the physical environment after yet another critical CMS report to Congress about the agency’s oversight of AOs. CMS also expressed concerns...
