Protective equipment in the lab is a frontline defense, in addition to being necessary for compliance. Yet experts warn that too many healthcare organizations assume their protective gear meets regulatory expectations without verifying its performance.
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 about the importance of...
Hospital security leaders face an enormous task: maintaining a safe, compliant, and open environment for patients, staff, and visitors—often with limited resources and increasing risk. That’s why building a smarter security program means learning from those who’ve done it at scale and in high-...
Moving on through the rest of the list (we’ll finish this up next week), again no surprises if you’ve been paying attention to the survey process over the last decade or so (this really started to gain traction round about ’09). I do wish I had a better sense of what the...
Surface transmission, also known as fomite transmission, remains a concern in the spreading of infectious diseases and viruses in healthcare facilities and hospitals.
The Joint Commission’s (TJC) 2026 revisions to the Emergency Management (EM) chapter mark a reshuffling of element numbers and represent a strategic reframe of how hospitals approach readiness, risk, and survey alignment.
