In healthcare environments, incidents of verbal aggression, intimidation, or harassment often occur before physical violence. Discover how hospitals can better recognize early warning signals and incorporate them into their workplace violence prevention programs.
In ambulatory surgery centers (ASC), some of the most significant risks and common survey deficiencies can stem from issues that receive far less attention during day-to-day operations.
Rather than occurring as isolated events, many patient safety problems develop as patients move between hospitals, primary care providers, specialists, and outpatient facilities. Every transition creates another opportunity for information to be lost or responsibilities to become unclear.
Life safety and facilities leaders may face confusion following new construction. Although many projects are built according to updated standards, surveys often continue to cite older references.
In rural communities, workforce shortages, financial pressures, and other challenges are compounded by geographic isolation and failing healthcare infrastructure. Consequently, lack of access to healthcare becomes a patient safety risk.
CMS published a request for information on July 16, seeking public comments on potential updates to certain Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) regulations.
Healthcare fire and life safety programs are facing pressure from multiple directions, including workforce shortages, complex technologies, evolving codes and standards, and growing demands on facility teams.
Many MRI safety programs focus on events that resulted in actual patient harm, but near misses frequently provide the most valuable information and expose vulnerabilities before someone gets hurt.
