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The National Patient Safety Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a world where patients and those who care for them are free from harm. NPSF is the founding...
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The National Patient Safety Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a world where patients and those who care for them are free from harm. NPSF is the founding...
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defined safety as “freedom from accidental injury.” Patient safety has multiple definitions: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – A discipline in the health care...
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Patient Safety Awareness Week, an initiative of the National Patient Safety Foundation, is March 13 -19, 2016. The National Patient Safety Foundation recently published the report Free from Harm: Accelerating...
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Development, implementation and maintenance of your organization’s policies and procedures plays a huge part in patient safety. Let MCN Healthcare help. The development and management of policies is important in healthcare....
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The Joint Commission has issued a NEW Sentinel Event Alert that addresses detecting and treating suicide ideation in all settings. According to TJC, the suicide rate in the United States...
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The Joint Commission recently released Sentinel Event Statistics for 2015. Unintended retention of a foreign object was reported 116 times between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015 making it,...
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Last week’s blog covered the U.S. Senate’s release a report on the outbreak of deadly bacterial infections linked to contaminated medical scopes. According to the report, Preventable Tragedies: Superbugs and...
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The United States Senate has released a report on the outbreak of deadly bacterial infections linked to contaminated medical scopes. According to the report, Preventable Tragedies: Superbugs and How Ineffective...
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MCN Healthcare staff give back in a variety of ways during the year. One of our clinical staff recently travelled to Madagascar through the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. This group sends...
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In May 2015, the World Health Organization reported the first local transmission of Zika virus in the Western Hemisphere, with locally acquired cases identified in Brazil. As of January 15,...
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