California state health officials announced this week that they will extend a mask mandate through June 15, despite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that lifted many of the restrictions for fully vaccinated people.
“Until June 15, when California plans to fully reopen...
A new decision-making tool to help nurse leaders re-start family-presence policies that balance safety with a patient’s emotional need for family was released Tuesday.
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After surviving a global pandemic, will healthcare organizations double down on high reliability principles, or will they decide the costs of becoming a high reliability organization (HRO) exceed the benefits?
Vikki Choate, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CPHQ, a healthcare consultant...
Back in 2015, Ashley Weiss, DO, MPH, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine, together with Serena Chaudhry, LCSW, MPH, a clinical social worker affiliated with Tulane University School of Medicine’s Department of...
In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of breaking news from the Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center since Inside Accreditation & Quality was last published.
Sometimes as you get ready for survey, you just need a review of the basics. In the following excerpt from HCPro’s Survey Coordinator’s Handbook, 21st Edition, we offer you an introduction to the concept of criticality. (To learn more about the book, by author Jodi Eisenberg, MHA,...
