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| This September, The Joint Commission posted an infographic on “high-quality hand-offs.” The infographic is a companion to the accreditor’s Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) 58 on inadequate handoff communications and its effect on patient care. Transferring a patient’s care between providers is major point of failure for healthcare. Every transfer runs the risk of key treatment information being garbled, forgotten, or not passed on. |
| News Headlines Start delegating work now to get your facility ready by January
The Joint Commission finally has prepublished its new and revised pain management standards. They’ll go into effect on January 1, and there is a lot of work to do between now and then.  National Suicide Prevention Week is September 10-16, bringing awareness to the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. This week is a time for physicians, nurses, and other providers to learn more about how their healthcare organizations can help suicidal patients.
Marketing Spotlight Hundreds of people in U.S. hospitals have been sickened by exposure to deadly bacteria on poorly disinfected, but routinely used diagnostic scopes. Additionally, several hospitals have been hit by major fines and loss of accreditation for failure to adhere to strict regulations requiring hospitals to reduce the risk of deadly infections. The need for affordable infection control training has never been greater. That’s where The Healthcare Diagnostic Devices Reprocessing Toolkit comes in. This comprehensive toolkit of checklists, tools, and resources will help hospitals address the increasing problem of improperly disinfected scopes and other diagnostic devices.
This electronic toolkit will help you:
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• Distribute training materials to staff electronically
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