Hospital workplace violence prevention often comes with good intentions, but incomplete execution. Many hospitals today have crisis response plans on file and security teams on standby.
Hospital lab safety leaders don’t need another reminder about the technician shortage—they’re living it. But what’s often overlooked is the competition beyond the walls of healthcare: Remote jobs, limited career mobility, and lackluster recruiting infrastructure are draining the talent pipeline...
Over the years, I have met a number of folks that got their healthcare start in what used to be known as housekeeping. I got in just at the end of the “housekeeping” era; we morphed into “building services.”
The Joint Commission (TJC) is introducing a new approach to accreditation called Accreditation 360. In its rollout, the accreditor has promised a modernized, more transparent model that emphasizes outcomes, improves public access to standards, and aligns with CMS expectations. There are also a...
Clinical laboratories are once again in the federal crosshairs. According to Barnes & Thornburg, LLP’s 2024 Healthcare Enforcement and Compliance Annual Report, lab service providers were involved in 18 civil settlements totaling nearly $240 million last year—a sharp signal of...
Robert “Navy Bob” Roncska, DBA, a retired Navy captain and co-author of the book High Reliability Healthcare, believes the safest hospitals are those where culture is measured not by slogans, but by behavior.
The more I look at the announced changes to Joint Commission’s accreditation product(s), the more it seems to me that the end result is more a reshuffling of the same deck of cards we’ve been playing with since the dawn of the life safety surveyor as part of the accreditation survey team.
As hospitals and health systems prepare for the 2026 update to The Joint Commission (TJC)’s accreditation standards, one of the most significant changes on the horizon is the proposed merger of the Life Safety (LS) and Environment of Care (EC) chapters into a single, comprehensive Physical...
Building trust with your lab team to the point where you can leave them alone to do their jobs safely is essential, says Jason P. Nagy, PhD, MLS(ASCP), QLS, and Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS. Nagy is a laboratory safety support coordinator and Scungio is a...
Sometimes when I'm preparing a new post, I like to do a quick search to see if I'd covered the subject previously and, if so, how long ago it might have been. I recently did a search relative to the Safety Space and the hierarchy of hazard controls and found that we had touched on the subject a...
