November 15, 2018

CDC Highlights Antibiotic Awareness Week

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is encouraging healthcare organizations to improve their use of antibiotic medications through U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week, which takes place this week through November 18.

Newsletter Articles

Increased oversight means more pressure on AOs to spot problems

Expect CMS to continue to put pressure on The Joint Commission (TJC) and other accrediting organizations (AO) to find more of the serious fire safety and infection control issues the federal agency says they are still missing during surveys.

CMS making deficiency reports more accessible to public

CMS wants to put a stronger spotlight on times when TJC and other AOs fail to find patient safety problems later discovered by CMS survey teams conducting performance checks referred to as validation surveys.To do so, CMS has created a website that provides a graphic about the disparity rate of deficiencies found on validation surveys.

Compact respirator masks hope to change the healthcare PPE game

An Australia-based company hopes to be a game-changer as it introduces into the U.S. market a line of powered respirator masks that promise to be much easier to use and work in for healthcare professionals.

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Safety Book Survey 2019

We're working on books for 2019 and like to hear from you. Please take this short survey and let us know what safety topics or updates you'd like us to write about! www.surveymonkey.com/r/W8DYPFP

Mac's Safety Space

And the wind blew the echoes of long faded voices: Some Emergency Management thoughts

November 15, 2018

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