Now that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has again renewed the official declaration of a public health emergency (PHE) related to the 2019 novel coronavirus, hospitals and other providers can continue to take advantage of CMS blanket 1135 waivers.
Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, CADC, ICRC, a national behavioral health consultant with years of experience in hospital settings and now the director of evidence-based practices and programs for Wellpath Recovery Solutions, spoke to Patient Safety Monitor Journal...
I was really, really, really thinking that I’d be able to glom on to some other subject matter this week (which I suppose it partially true), but it would...
Last October, PG&E shut off power to more than 248 hospitals and millions of customers to prevent uncontrolled power outages during the region’s powerful Santa Ana winds. The winds have a tendency to exacerbate fire conditions, rushing in to coastal California from the Sierra Nevada...
Stay on top of routine testing, maintenance, inspections, fire drills, and other life safety and environment of care requirements during the COVID-19 national emergency.
In the topsy turvy world of Personal Protective Equipment (aka PPE), there are some developments on the decontamination/reprocessing of masks that I...
If you are still preparing for a major onslaught of suspected COVID-19 patients or expect another in the fall, review your plans against the strategies hospitals already have employed to deal...
Dig out your hurricane preparedness plans and now with an eye on potentially handling two or more disasters at once.On top of the continuing national emergency related to the surge in COVID-19 patients, a major storms season is upon us.
