The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has approved Tentative Interim Amendment 1869 to NFPA 101, Life Safety Code®, officially allowing weapons detection systems to be incorporated within means of egress under specified conditions.
Learn how healthcare security leaders can assess entrances and exits, strengthen employee access controls, evaluate weapons-detection systems and other security technology, and prioritize improvements when resources are limited.
A hospital receives an accreditation finding, revises the relevant policy, retrains staff, increases auditing, and completes a corrective-action plan. Months later, the same problem returns.
Clinical artificial intelligence (AI) systems can produce inaccurate results, miss important findings, or perform differently across patient populations, raising plenty of concerns for industry experts.
Q: Many hospital leaders struggle with how seriously to take anonymous reports, especially when the facts cannot be immediately verified. From a compliance standpoint, how should healthcare organizations balance verification with the need to identify potential hazards early?
Hospitals can meet accreditation requirements, track quality measures, and deliver appropriate care, yet still see patients experience poor outcomes after they leave the building. One of the biggest opportunities for improving quality lies in what happens between healthcare settings.
Hospitals are showing broad improvement in patient safety, including sharp declines in healthcare-associated infections and greater adoption of medication safety practices. However, these gains can disappear quickly when organizations lose focus.
Most physician offices don’t store or use large quantities of controlled substances, but even if controlled substances are used infrequently, there is always a risk of theft. Assessing processes in physician offices will make certain that diversion risk is minimized.
Facilities and life safety leaders need to look beyond whether individual devices work. They also need to consider whether equipment remains accessible, whether inspection and testing records correspond with what is actually in the building, and more.
A hospital can have plenty of beds, sufficient physician staffing, and adequate emergency services, yet still leave some of the factors driving poor health unaddressed. Learn how emerging rural healthcare models are working to change this.
