If you are expecting a survey from your accreditation organization (AO) in the upcoming weeks and months, check in with your liaison. Some AOs are...Read More »
The American Hospital Association is supporting mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare personnel. It is also offering hospitals and health...Read More »
The United States is seeing a 16% increase in daily new cases over the previous week and more than 40 states have an increase in daily new cases ...Read More »
PTSD occurs after a person experiences or witnesses a highly stressful or upsetting event. Patients can also develop PTSD secondhand, from close...Read More »
OSHA will take comments until August 20 on an emergency temporary standard to set COVID-19 worker protection requirements that the federal agency...Read More »
The healthcare sector has shed 537,000 jobs since the start of the pandemic in February 2020, with hospitals accounting for 102,000 job losses,...Read More »
In March, OSHA issued its Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The updates extend existing OSHA...Read More »
Review the details of an interim final rule CMS published in May that sets COVID-19 vaccine requirements for long-term care (LTC) facilities and...Read More »
After modest uptake for nearly three decades, hospital at home programs are now growing faster across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic...Read More »
If a year of COVID-19 could be said to have any positives, one is the immense amount of data the pandemic has generated for the healthcare...Read More »
