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 ...
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 ...
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) earlier this month released its 2022 Quality Roadmap, an analysis of data from 2,016 accreditation surveys conducted in 2021-22. The accreditor encourages healthcare organizations to use the report to establish benchmarks...
Sepsis is the cause of death for many influenza patients, O’Brien says. “Annually, there about 200,000 hospitalizations that are associated with influenza, and there are around 40,000 deaths. If you look within those deaths, there is a significant number of patients who end up dying of sepsis,...
The twin surges in influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) across the United States are causing more than capacity issues for hospitals. Patients with RSV are often susceptible to bacterial infections that are, for pediatric patients, typically treated with amoxicillin. Yet in late...
Robert Campbell, PharmD, BCSCP, director of Medication Management and of TJC’s Standards Interpretation Group, gave a presentation about the antibiotic stewardship standards at TJC’s annual Executive Briefing in September.
The Joint Commission (TJC) has several updated antibiotic stewardship elements of performance (EP) that will take effect on January 1, 2023. These EPs include requirements to have an antibiotic stewardship committee, someone to head the committee that then oversees selection of evidence-based...
In the last few months, surveyors have been repeatedly tagging the failure to properly clean glucometers, and the use of common household items as surgical instruments. Both of these citations could put hospitals at risk of losing accreditation.
