COVID-19: CMS says primary survey focus will be on infection control preparedness

Source: Hosptial Safety Insider

CMS ordered its state and regional surveyors to suspend “non-emergency inspections across the...

Verma Raps Accrediting Organizations' "Glaring Conflict of Interest'

Source: Hosptial Safety Insider

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma took a swipe at accrediting...

Stay up-to-date, use available resources to plan as COVID-19 continues to spread

Source: Hosptial Safety Insider

As the CDC and international medical community continues to learn how to handle the spread of...

Burning with optimism’s flame: A future state in which surveys are less frightening…

Source: Mac's Safety Space

As you are all no doubt familiar at this point, one of the key management processes promulgated by...

Ensuring the power stays on

The Power P.I.O.N.E.E.R. (Power Information Needed to Expedite Emergency Response) system monitors the electrical grids of participating hospitals in real time and transmits generator capacity information from the operation’s emergency power system, as well as gas and electric data, back to Powered for Patients for assessment.

Coronavirus and preparing for the worst

Preparing for a worldwide pandemic, especially when you don’t know how fast it will spread or how serious its consequences will be, is one of the hardest things that healthcare workers do.

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