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The latest news and analysis about patient safety and healthcare quality.
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News & Analysis | | FDA Says to Decrease Reuse of Devices, CMS Removes Some Blanket Waivers | | Be aware that as COVID-19 cases are declining and vaccination rates are climbing, the emergency waivers and measures approved by the federal government to get through the public health emergency (PHE) will be changing. The FDA sent a notice to hospitals and others April 9 encouraging healthcare organizations to start moving away from the emergency measures taken to preserve and reuse medical devices and other supplies early in the PHE. |
| Remote Patient Monitoring Brings Hospital-Quality Care to the Home | | While Hospital at Home may sound like a direct reaction to the pandemic, the concept was originally developed in the mid-1990s by Dr. John Burton of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Dr. Donna Regenstreif of the John A. Hartford Foundation. Their goal, which was established roughly a decade before the introduction of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim, was to safely bring down the cost of acute care while improving outcomes and increasing patient satisfaction. |
| Hand Hygiene: No Time for Pandemic Fatigue | | Everyone in healthcare, whether frontline staff or providers of ancillary services, must consistently perform hand hygiene. How do we achieve compliance with this basic practice of infection prevention? This April 29 presentation will focus on proper hand hygiene protocols and why consistent hand hygiene is so important in this time of COVID-19 pandemic fatigue. |
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| Product Spotlight | | Life safety expert and independent consultant Brad Keyes, CHSP, provides a practical, strategic approach to the life safety survey process. He walks you through a room-by-room, floor-by-floor analysis of the life safety measures you must have in place to avoid costly citations. The book simplifies Joint Commission standards and CMS requirements and focuses on ways to pass your next life safety survey. Order now! | | |
Career Center | | Post your open positions or find your next career move with the HCPro Career Center. | | |
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