On March 20, the CDC released a press release warning that Candida auris (C. auris) has spread at an alarming rate between 2020-2021.

A new report from the CDC shows that the U.S. maternal mortality rate rose 40% from 2020 to 2021.

Today, healthcare providers are primed and ready to embrace a culture of safety and quality. Within the last decade, we have seen an increasing movement toward value-based care, more initiatives within hospitals dedicated to patient safety, and more appointments of doctors to the C-suite: a key indicator of increasing recognition that clinical executives must help steer strategic decisions as much as financial, technical, and operations leaders do.

What’s it all about…ASHE?

Almost every critical access hospital surveyed by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care from June 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022, was cited with infection prevention and control deficiencies for not mitigating problems within the physical environment.

CMS has revised and updated its State Operations Manual (SOM), Appendix M, on interpretive guidelines for hospice Conditions of Participation (CoP) as well as surveyor training for hospice inspectors.

IHI President Kedar Mate sat down with Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, the chief health equity officer and the senior vice president for the AMA, and Glenn Harris, the president of Race Forward and publisher of Colorlines. Both of their organizations are part of Rise to Health, and both have spent many years working to improve health equity in their communities and nationally.

“When contractors are hired, there should be an agreement which designates which agency will provide which [safety] requirements,” Scungio says. “The bottom line is that contracted employees must follow all required safety practices and policies of the temporary employer organization.”