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VA shoulders drug diversion shame

Sticky-fingered employees spell trouble for any organization. But theft poses a unique set of problems in healthcare settings, where missing drugs can introduce risk and violate the trust between patient and provider. When news of stolen medicine splashes across the headlines, finger-pointing ensues.

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Fake doc roams Boston hospital

When a man upset over the death of his mother walked into a Boston hospital in January 2015 and killed the doctor who had treated her, it sent shockwaves through the healthcare safety community as an important lesson was learned about how susceptible hospitals are to security breaches.

CMS interpretation finds that EDs are healthcare occupancies

In a rather surprising interpretation by CMS, all hospital emergency departments (ED) are now required to be classified as healthcare occupancies only. For many hospitals this may not be a problem, but for those hospitals that have already classified their EDs as an ambulatory healthcare occupancy, they will have to make a change back to a healthcare occupancy designation.

HCPro, HealthLeaders Media, and DecisionHealth merge to form the H3.Group

Together as the H3.Group, our powerful brands combine three pillars of thought leadership, expertise, and application to provide critical insight, analysis, tools and training to healthcare organizations nationwide.



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Resource: Drug Diversion Prevention in Healthcare

Theft of controlled substances at hospitals has always been a problem of paramount importance, but even with increased security measures, it still occurs.



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March 9, 2017



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