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.
Death record tracers can feel intimidating because they carry emotional weight and legal sensitivity, and they often expose process problems that were tolerated when the patient was alive.
Explore the operational drift, nuisance alarms, construction disruptions, human response delays, and governance breakdowns that can weaken fire detection effectiveness over time, even in facilities that remain technically code compliant.
Preventable transmission events occur when disease vectors are overlooked or not identified by a facility’s surveillance systems, and they can lead to hospital-associated infections, illness among staff members, delayed treatment, and operational disruption.
As Henry Ford Health’s state-of-the-art, award-winning interdisciplinary alcohol-associated liver disease program expands across Michigan, it is helping shape emerging standards for one of healthcare’s most complex and stigmatized patient populations.
