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Labor Secretary Marty Walsh recently confirmed that three OSHA healthcare rulemakings are priorities for the Labor Department: a permanent healthcare COVID-19 standard, a proposed infectious disease standard, and a rulemaking to address workplace violence in healthcare and social services.

In several reports, the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate compared to other developed countries—a report from The Commonwealth Fund found the United States had the worst maternal mortality rate compared to 10 other developed countries. 

As Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, assumes the presidency of the American Nurses Association (ANA), her priorities will include safe staffing and continuing the momentum of her predecessor, Ernest J. Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, to fight racism.

The good folks over at the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) recently indicated their intent to move forward with several rulemaking processes that address certain conditions and risks in the healthcare industry: COVID, infectious diseases, and workplace violence.

While the COVID-19 public health emergency isn’t quite over, it’s becoming clear that surveys by The Joint Commission (TJC) have largely ramped back up to pre-pandemic levels.

The last 12 months have seen a lot of changes in hospital life safety and environment of care. Here are some compliance tips healthcare facility managers have shared to make survey preparation easier.

The Joint Commission (TJC) unveiled new and revised workplace violence prevention (WPV) requirements effective January 1, 2022. Specifically, it issued three new elements of performance (EP) to existing standards and two revised EPs.

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The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the accelerated uptake of technology, says Patty Hayward, vice president of strategy, healthcare, and life sciences with Talkdesk. “Everyone needed healthcare, but they couldn’t go to their in-person providers in a lot of cases, so they turned to their phones,” she says. “These phone systems were not set up for that, so we saw the rapid adoption of technology offering ways to interact with patients.”