Looking for ideas? OIG report outlines hospital strategies on COVID challenges

April 6, 2020
COVID-19, Emergency Management, Infection Control

By A.J. Plunkett

If you are still preparing for a major onslaught of suspected COVID-19 patients, review your plans against the strategies...Read More »

COVID-19: First Responders Must Be Notified of Coronavirus Exposure

April 7, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 15
COVID-19, Emergency Management, Infection Control

Healthcare facilities and public health officials now must inform emergency responders when they have been exposed to the novel coronavirus that...Read More »

OIG report: Survival strategies by hospitals in the COVID-19 trenches

April 6, 2020
COVID-19, Emergency Management, Infection Control

Appendix A, is reprinted from “Hospital Experiences Responding to the COVID-19...Read More »

Coronavirus: Infectious Disease Expert Shares Lessons Learned From Other Recent Outbreaks

March 31, 2020
- Volume 14 Issue 14
COVID-19, Emergency Management, Infection Control

Although there are differences between the novel coronavirus pandemic and the recent swine flu and Ebola outbreaks, there are valuable lessons...Read More »

Two-thirds of all hospital beds are already occupied

March 24, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 13
COVID-19, Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety

New report shows some states and counties lag far behind in the availability of hospital beds.Read More »

COVID-19: Non-profit group partners with biotech consortium to crowd-source PPE solutions

March 23, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 13
COVID-19, Emergency Management, Infection Control, PPE

Healthcare Ready, a nonprofit that works to strengthen public-and private-sector healthcare supply...Read More »

COVID-19: OSHA relaxes respirator fit-testing enforcement under certain circumstances

March 17, 2020
Accreditation, COVID-19, Emergency Management, Infection Control, Staff safety

In further recognition of the short supply of protective N95 respirators for healthcare workers treating suspected or confirmed patients with...Read More »

See when states will face hospital bed capacity shortages during the COVID-19 outbreak

March 17, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 12
COVID-19, Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

The earliest ICU bed shortages are likely to emerge at the end of March, according to a new analysis.Read More »

Coronavirus and preparing for the worst

March 16, 2020
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 21 Issue 4
Accreditation, Emergency Management, Infection Control

Preparing for a worldwide pandemic, especially when you don’t know how fast it will spread or how serious its consequences will be, is one of the...Read More »

National emergency declared over COVID-19 coronavirus; 1135 waivers now in play

March 13, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 12
Accreditation, CMS, COVID-19, Emergency Management, Infection Control, Leadership, Patient Safety, Survey Preparation

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