Include your water management team in construction and renovation projects to ensure checks are done for waterborne infections before patients and staff move in.

Unless you are constantly training with your workers, the laws won’t protect anyone. 

Editor’s note: In this interview, Michael R. Cohen, RPH, MS, ScD (hon.), DPS (hon.), FASHP, founder and president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses the current state of medication safety. The interview was...