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.
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 discusses fire safety.
Actually, that title is a bit misleading because, truth be told, the most frequently cited conditions in the physical environment as collated by our friends from Chicago over the past year or so are pretty much the ones they’ve been for as far back as I can remember (which is far enough).
The United States is experiencing a mental health crisis among people of all ages, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Some patients are able to seek care from their primary care practitioners or mental health professionals. Others must turn to the emergency...
Hospital security teams have long played a critical role in patient and staff safety—but under increasing OSHA scrutiny, their responsibilities now stretch even further.
As I see it, the current changes to the Joint Commission accreditation process that are barreling at us with almost alarming speed (it will be January before you know it—and I’m keeping close tabs on that, let me tell you) represent a significant opportunity to streamline the oversight processes...
