Coronavirus Care Rationing: "It's Not Just About Ventilators"

In addition to ventilators, there are four primary care rationing scenarios during the coronavirus...

Study Puts U.S. COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate at 1.3%

COVID-19 kills 1.3% of symptomatic people and could kill 500,000 Americans in the coming months if...

CMS Emergency Waivers Now Include Some Testing, Inspections

After several requests, CMS finally issued a waiver for some — but not all — equipment...

Hurricane preparedness week: Get ready now

Dig out your hurricane preparedness plans and now with an eye on potentially handling two or more...

CMS provides yet a little more flexibility for the management of the physical environment

Source: Mac's Safety Space

In the ever-unfolding saga of pandemic response, the folks at CMS have issued another couple of waivers relating to the physical environment....

Q&A: Para-slides, hot water, generator battery heaters, rolling fire doors

Each month, Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance, answers your questions about...

Keep open communication, maintain fire safety in "extraordinary times"

In the rush to deal with real-time or potential patient surge during a public health emergency (PHE), facilities managers and clinical quality control officers should talk frequently about maintaining fire safety within the physical environment.

COVID-19 and the pyramid: Protecting laboratorians

In 1950, the United States National Safety Council began describing what became known as the...

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Written by diversion prevention expert Kim New, this book is designed to help nursing, patient safety, and hospital security officials foster awareness of drug diversion, fight the “it can’t happen here” mentality, keep staff accountable, and monitor and audit the drugs moving through your facility to ensure they reach the right patient.

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