Demand for COVID vaccines expected to get heated, and fast

With two promising vaccines primed for release, likely within weeks, experts in ethics and...

PSMF renews efforts to improve patient safety in hospitals

After several years of focusing on smaller improvements to eliminate preventable patient deaths...

Assessing and addressing interprofessional teamwork in hospitals

Hospitalists and nurses working on general medical services have varying perceptions of the...

Someone’s in the kitchen, but there are no banjos involved…

Source: Mac's Safety Space

Certainly, the kitchen has always been part of the fabric of most regulatory survey visits...

DNV GL virtual conference: Physical environment hot spots

Many hospitals and clinics struggle with the same physical environment (PE) topics, such as ligature risk, facility assessments, and training staff on PE requirements. At the 2020 DNV GL Virtual Conference, viewers learned about these issues from PE experts Randy Julian, CHFM, CHSP, CHOP, and Jim Faze, MBA, CHOP. Faze and Julian are accreditation specialists for DNV GL with decades of experience between them.

2021 promises changes, challenges to meet PHE, other safety needs

Expect emergency preparedness and infection control to remain front and center during accreditation and compliance surveys for the immediate future as 2021 starts much the way most of 2020 played out-–with all hospital operations centered around a pandemic that ebbs and surges and a political environment that is seeping into all aspects of planning.

Regardless of who will be in the driver’s seat at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as well as CMS, the CDC, and the FDA, all roads will lead to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and returning to a broader focus on patient safety. Alongside that will be efforts to sustain a hospital industry that has suffered financially along with the rest of the nation.

Consider these tips when planning for civil unrest

Here are some tips, taken from accounts after the Baltimore protests over the death of Freddie Gray in 2015 as well as other hospitals’ experience in other disasters, to help you prepare for a possible riot or other civil unrest:

Becoming a "COVID captain"

The year 2020 is roaring quickly to a close, and COVID-19 is (unfortunately) still around. We have made changes to our lives at home, in public, and at work. Healthcare workers in particular have made several changes early on with PPE use and work practices that are still in effect today, and a great deal of work had to be done to inform staff about updated safety information and protocols.

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