UPDATE: Â CMSÂ published a memorandum on June 20, 2016 stating the following: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted by regulation the 2012 LSC and the 2012 HCFC....
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Blood connects us all is the theme of this year’s World Blood Donor Day. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) objectives for this campaign include providing a wider public awareness for...
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new online toolkit to help hospital and health system leaders and clinicians communicate with patients and their families when...
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Dr. Diane Heine, MCN Healthcare Regulatory Expert and Writer, will be speaking at the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality’s (CIHQ) 2016 Accreditation & Regulatory Summit. She will be speaking...
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UPDATE: An open letter from health experts was sent to Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, WHO on May 30, 2016.  In this letter a group of health experts voiced their concerns about...
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced last week that the Department of Defense Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network (MRSN) at the Walter Reed Institute of...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a final rule that updates health care facilities’ fire protection guidelines to improve protections for all Medicare beneficiaries in facilities...
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The NSPF Patient Safety Congress is a conference dedicated solely to patient safety. The NPSF Annual Congress provides an opportunity for practitioners, leaders, and experts around the world to come...
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Clinical alarm management issues are consistently ranked as the top patient safety issue by many organizations. Alarm hazards is listed as the number one hazard on the ECRI Institute’s 2015...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the new Clean Hands Count campaign urging healthcare professionals, patients, and patients’ loved ones to prevent healthcare-associated infections by keeping their...
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