Today, healthcare providers are primed and ready to embrace a culture of safety and quality. Within the last decade, we have seen an increasing movement toward value-based care, more initiatives within hospitals dedicated to patient safety, and more appointments of doctors to the C-suite: a key...
CMS has revised and updated its State Operations Manual (SOM), Appendix M, on interpretive guidelines for hospice Conditions of Participation (CoP) as well as surveyor training for hospice inspectors.
Almost every critical access hospital surveyed by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care from June 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022, was cited with infection prevention and control deficiencies for not mitigating problems within the physical environment.
One thing often missing from the healthcare equity conversation, Mate said, is the impact of moral injury on the well-being of providers—specifically related to the inability to treat the underlying causes of patients’ suffering.
Specimen couriers are often overlooked when it comes to proper safety training. They perform the important role of transporting specimens for testing, but without the proper education and tools, they can find themselves in harmful situations.
Ensure your workers are up to date on respirator fit testing and falls protection protocols, especially if OSHA has cited your healthcare facility for those safety problems in the last five years. If the facility is found to be a “willful” repeat offender, the penalties could be much worse...
