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Joint Commission to publicly report C-sections

Starting July 2020, The Joint Commission (TJC) will publicly report hospitals that have consistently high C-section rates on their Quality Check website.

Newsletter Articles

Know your hospital's electrical backup plan

A series of recent electrical grid failures, including a massive transformer station explosion in New York City and nationwide 911 outages, showed what can happen when the grid goes haywire—and demonstrated the need for solid backup plans.

General Healthcare Requirements: Special Definitions and Classifications

This article is an excerpt from the HCPro book The Life Safety Code® Workbook and Study Guide by Jennifer O’Connell and John Helton. Visit http://hcmarketplace.com/life-safety-code-workbook for more information.

Accidents happen: Now what?

Editor’s note: In this guest column, Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, laboratory safety officer for Sentara Healthcare, a multihospital system in Virginia, and otherwise known as “Dan, the Lab Safety Man,” discusses the important issues that affect your job every day.


 

Mac's Safety Space

Immediate Jeopardy: How much do you want to wager?

Over the last couple of weeks, the folks at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (we know them by the cleverly acronymic CMS) have been busy generating lots of guidance for the folks in the field, healthcare organizations and surveyors alike.


 

Editor's Picks

The CMS Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guideline, 2019

March 12, 2019


 

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