Concerns relating to violence in the healthcare workplace has been with us a long time (was there ever a time when it wasn’t somewhere in the mix...Read More »
The Joint Commission (TJC) will no longer use the term “licensed independent practitioner” in its hospital and critical access hospital standards...Read More »
Workplace security. Life safety compliance. HIPAA privacy and security. They’re all intertwined with a common goal: safety for healthcare...Read More »
The Joint Commission (TJC) has several updated antibiotic stewardship elements of performance (EP) that will take effect on January 1, 2023. These...Read More »
Recommended steps to prevent workplace violence in hospitals include ensuring workers receive adequate training, having sufficient staffing levels...Read More »
CMS wants hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers, “especially those delivering care in congregate care settings,” to protect...Read More »
In the last few months, surveyors have been repeatedly tagging the failure to properly clean glucometers, and the use of common household items as...Read More »
When standards have been realigned in the past, certain “requirements” were dropped off, but some of those things never really went away, mostly...Read More »
Medical staffs have various documents that address how they self-govern themselves. All medical staffs are required to have medical staff bylaws....Read More »
