There are one or two takeaways from the recent CMS approval of our friends from Chicago to continue accrediting critical access hospitals that gave me pause.
The American healthcare sector produces an estimated 8.5% of the country’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and accounts for 25% of global health sector emissions—the highest proportion attributable to any individual country’s...
Facilities can start working toward certification immediately and apply on January 1, 2024, or fill out a pre-application form before the formal launch date.
With the scarcity of many drugs reaching an all-time high, 99% of hospital pharmacists surveyed recently said they were seeing shortages, and a third of those said the shortages were having a critical impact on healthcare.
In the wake of Tropical Storm Hilary in California and Hurricane Idalia in the Gulf Coast, make sure that your patients and staff know how to stay safe after a major storm or flooding. The CDC has put out a list of post-...
Which would you rather do? Tell someone in the C-suite the hospital is facing a CMS immediate jeopardy ruling because the staff was so overwhelmed by paper drug prescriptions after a ransomware attack shut down computer records that a 3-year-old patient was given five times the prescribed dosage...
With healthcare cyberattacks on the rise, the Joint Commission has issued guidance for health system executives on how to react once a data breach has been detected.
August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month, and while hopefully your laboratory staff aren’t children, they should know the protocols for eye protection when dealing with hazardous materials. American workers experience 2,000 eye-...
Pfizer is asking customers to exhaust other supply sources before ordering 12 sterile injectable drugs from the company as it continues to assess its ability to produce the drugs following a tornado that severely damaged one of its manufacturing plants in North Carolina.
