The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has approved Tentative Interim Amendment 1869 to NFPA 101, Life Safety Code®, officially allowing weapons detection systems to be incorporated within means of egress under specified conditions, effective May 2026.
The gap between accreditation standards and real clinical practice is an ongoing and underreported friction point, and that disconnect creates genuine compliance ambiguity.
Regulatory investigations, civil litigation, criminal enforcement actions, and reputational damage can all follow when hospitals fail to detect, document, and respond appropriately to controlled substance loss or misuse.
Facilities need to evaluate splash zones and current practices for sink safety and consider implementing new strategies to minimize risk to patients and staff.
Unlike CT scans or X-rays, MRI does not expose patients to ionizing radiation, helping cement its image as a lower-risk diagnostic tool. But patient safety experts say that perception has also contributed to a dangerous blind spot inside hospitals and imaging centers.
In this guest column, Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, laboratory safety officer for multihospital system Sentara Healthcare in Virginia, and otherwise known as “Dan, the Lab Safety Man,” discusses the important issues that affect your job every day. Today, he talks...
CMS recently issued a final rule to enhance oversight of accrediting organizations (AO), improve survey consistency, reduce conflicts of interest, and increase transparency.
Accreditation and quality leaders must understand how artificial intelligence (AI), documentation burden, and equity expectations are reshaping compliance work inside hospitals.
The presence of lifts, slings, transfer benches, walkers, and mobility aids means little if hospitals cannot prove those de-vices are inspected, maintained, tested, and tied to document-ed staff training.
