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Celebrating Patient Safety Awareness Week with the latest news and analysis about patient safety and healthcare quality.
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Featured Story
When Face-to-Face Isn't an Option: Exploring the Future of Telehealth and Remote Care During COVID-19 and Beyond

COVID-19 has changed nearly every aspect of healthcare, perhaps none more significantly than face-to-face visits between patients and providers. In this PSQH Industry Focus Report, discover some of these virtual adjustments and the unplanned benefits they provide.
 

News & Analysis
TJC to Begin Unannounced Survey Visits Again
In a statement in its Joint Commission Online weekly publication, TJC noted that COVID-19 caseloads have been decreasing. “The Joint Commission will return to its usual procedures prior to the pandemic. Organizations will no longer be receiving a phone call or email from their account executive when it has been determined the area is low risk for The Joint Commission’s accreditation survey team to visit. All available resources will be utilized to conduct onsite, unannounced accreditation surveys.”
Long COVID Alliance Launched to Help Coronavirus 'Long Haulers'
In a recent study of COVID-19 patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infection, functional impairment was found in 53.8% of patients four months after hospital discharge. Long COVID symptoms include cough, shortness of breath, anxiety and depression, cardiac issues, fatigue, deconditioning, and hair loss.
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Upcoming virtual event

Patient Safety NOW: Online Summit
Patient Safety Now is PSQH’s exclusive online summit taking place on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. This free event features three sessions, run by industry leaders, focusing on providing a superior level of safety for your patients.
 

Industry Events

Monday, 3/15 - AAAHC Achieving Accreditation (virtual)

Friday, 4/30 - ABQAURP's 43rd Annual Health Care Quality & Patient Safety Conference

Tuesday, 6/11 - 2021 IHI Patient Safety Congress

Monday, 6/28 - APIC 2021

Monday, 8/9 - HIMSS21 Global Health Conference & Exhibition
 

Patient Safety Awareness Week

 

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Analyzing the Hospital Life Safety Survey, Fourth Edition

Life safety expert and independent consultant Brad Keyes, CHSP, provides a practical, strategic approach to the life safety survey process. He walks you through a room-by-room, floor-by-floor analysis of the life safety measures you must have in place to avoid costly citations. The book simplifies Joint Commission standards and CMS requirements and focuses on ways to pass your next life safety survey.

 

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