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 talks about the importance of...
Hospital security leaders face an enormous task: maintaining a safe, compliant, and open environment for patients, staff, and visitors—often with limited resources and increasing risk. That’s why building a smarter security program means learning from those who’ve done it at scale and in high-...
Moving on through the rest of the list (we’ll finish this up next week), again no surprises if you’ve been paying attention to the survey process over the last decade or so (this really started to gain traction round about ’09). I do wish I had a better sense of what the...
Surface transmission, also known as fomite transmission, remains a concern in the spreading of infectious diseases and viruses in healthcare facilities and hospitals.
The Joint Commission’s (TJC) 2026 revisions to the Emergency Management (EM) chapter mark a reshuffling of element numbers and represent a strategic reframe of how hospitals approach readiness, risk, and survey alignment.
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 discusses fire safety.
Actually, that title is a bit misleading because, truth be told, the most frequently cited conditions in the physical environment as collated by our friends from Chicago over the past year or so are pretty much the ones they’ve been for as far back as I can remember (which is far enough).
The United States is experiencing a mental health crisis among people of all ages, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Some patients are able to seek care from their primary care practitioners or mental health professionals. Others must turn to the emergency...
