Hospital surveyors are no longer satisfied with documentation that shows issues retrospectively. They want to see that organizations can identify safety risks as they emerge, respond within the same shift, and maintain reliability even during operational surges.
A new year offers an opportunity for hospital lab leaders to reevaluate their compliance posture, close persistent gaps, and strengthen systems that support safety, accreditation readiness, and regulatory performance.
At Henry Ford Health, quality improvement is celebrated. Each fall, hundreds of teams gather for an event that has been engrained into the system’s culture: the Quality Expo.
Environmental disinfection is a key component of a safe and effective laboratory. Disinfection protects researchers and public health, prevents contamination and cross-contamination of experiments, and keeps laboratories in compliance with safety and regulatory requirements.
Well, we have come to the end of this particular road. I just want each of you to know how very much I have enjoyed your company these past however many years.
This is Part 2 of our interview with Jason P. Nagy, PhD, MLS(ASCP), QLS, and Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, on including just culture elements in your lab safety culture. Nagy is a laboratory safety support coordinator and Scungio is a laboratory safety officer for the...
Security and clinical leaders agree—it’s not enough to react to violent incidents in healthcare after the fact. Effective prevention requires executive commitment, interdepartmental coordination, and tailored strategies that evolve with the threat landscape.
Fast-forward to the present day and it seems like grace is in shorter supply than any time that I can recall (I don’t go further back than 1960, so there are limits to my insight), so this seemed to be exactly the right note to play before I finish up blathering in this space.
