A new CMS Quality, Safety & Oversight group memo on suicide prevention urges hospitals to go above and beyond to help protect patients from themselves. Accrediting organizations like ACHC and TJC cite resources and offer tools to help.
Pfizer is asking customers to exhaust other supply sources before ordering 12 sterile injectable drugs from the company as it continues to assess its ability to produce the drugs following a tornado that severely damaged one of its manufacturing plants in North Carolina.
Safety audits are performed in laboratories across the world, but in some of these locations the environment remains very unsafe and performing audits hasn’t made any difference. Mistakes can be made when performing a laboratory audit, and those errors can lead to dangerous situations. While all...
The following is part two of our interview with Maya Bizri, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist and consultation-liaison psychiatrist looking for solutions to provide support for healthcare providers working in low-resource settings or in global disaster settings. She’s worked in conflict...
More than 80% of hospitals recently surveyed by the American Hospital Association are collecting data on social determinants of health (SDOH), many through their EHR platform and health information exchanges. Yet only half of those hospitals are collecting data regularly.
CMS is worried that hospitals have too much advance notice of when surveyors will be on the premises to audit patient safety practices and identify problems, including those found while investigating patient complaints.
