Emergency showers, manufacturer instructions, staffing and personnel issues—these are some of the standards that laboratories are struggling with...Read More »
Review your hospital’s practices for storing sterile devices and supplies now that three of the four hospital accrediting organizations (AO) have...Read More »
CMS has updated survey guidance on minimum health and safety standards for long-term care (LTC) facilities, including expectations for infection...Read More »
In this week’s installment, our friends in Chicago have sharpened their pencils (and placed them in a safe place once their edits were completed)...Read More »
CMS approved The Joint Commission’s (TJC) hospital accreditation program for just another three years. If not for the pandemic, that time span...Read More »
As previously reported, The Joint Commission unveiled new and revised workplace violence (WPV) prevention requirements effective January 1, 2022....Read More »
Now that hospitals and other healthcare providers have had time to meet the CMS staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements, CMS is easing up on...Read More »
One of the common themes that’s emerged from our transition into what is presumably going to be a post-COVID world (somehow I still think that we...Read More »
