This may feel like more of a public service announcement, but, if we’ve learned nothing else over the last 3-ish years, it's that sometimes the impact(s) of events can take on rather interesting twists and turns. Certainly, if any of the folks in the audience have to fly with any frequency, this...
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The Joint Commission—which last year issued new hospital Leadership standards to encourage health equity, effective January 1, 2023—has now elevated health equity to a National Patient Safety Goal.
The incident occurred shortly after 12:30 p.m. and the worker has not been identified by police yet. Police and OSHA were notified and went to the scene to investigate.
Hand hygiene remains a perennial issue in healthcare and requires constant vigilance on the part of providers. With the “tripledemic” of COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus this...
Workplace security. Life safety compliance. HIPAA privacy and security. They’re all intertwined with a common goal: safety for healthcare employees and patients.
With that, we’re providing some HIPAA compliance tips, data, and information from regulators as we work toward a new year.
Professionals throughout healthcare to gave their predictions for what will happen in patient safety and healthcare quality in 2023. Here’s what they had to say.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will proceed with three rulemakings focused on the healthcare industry—standards for COVID-19, infectious diseases, and workplace violence—the Department of Labor (DOL) announced as part of the fall 2022 unified regulatory agenda ...
Ensure safeguards against sink splash in areas designated for clean medication preparation or face potential citations from surveyors, especially now that the problem has been called out in recently updated CDC core prevention and infection control practices.
