I’ve been ruminating a bit about how AI is going to impact safety operations. I think there’s probably going to be some kind of benefit, maybe managing deficiencies more efficiently.
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...
In March, the American Hospital Association (AHA) published a new Insight Report: Improvement in Safety Culture Linked to Better Patient and Safety Outcomes, which shows improvements to key patient and workforce experiences. These developments indicate better work among team members in...
Fires don’t happen every day in healthcare, but that doesn’t mean they never happen. In the March edition of The Joint Commission’s (TJC) Environment of Care News, the commission discussed some clinical fires that happened in 2024—one caused by a high-flow oxygen humidifier, and another...
This is Part 2 of our interview on Imagine Pediatrics, a 24/7 virtual and in-home medical group serving children on Medicaid in Texas, Florida, and the District of Columbia, with Courtney Bolton, PhD, its chief behavioral health officer.
Plan, do, check, and act. When a problem emerges in the laboratory, it’s not enough to just respond and move on. You also need to find out what caused it and how to prevent it from happening again. Without closing the loop, the safety problem will linger in your lab until it’s noticed by...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released significant revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 last year, reshaping how race and ethnicity data must be collected, reported, and analyzed by federal agencies—and any entities (like hospitals) that report or submit federal health...
When it comes down to compliance in the healthcare physical environment, the “true” Authority Having Jurisdiction resides with the folks at CMS, in all their glory.
Health equity is the fair and equal opportunity for all people to achieve their highest level of health regardless of their social, economic, or geographic status. Achieving health equity is no small task—it may be the most complex challenge facing health and healthcare.
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 discussed lab exposure.
