COVID-19 vaccination status checks officially retired

CMS has officially retired the requirements for healthcare staff vaccination against COVID-19.

After nearly half a year of steady declines, COVID cases are inching back up again, Dr. Brendan Jackson, the CDC's COVID-19 incident manager, told NPR.

A new survey by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) takes a deep dive into workplace violence in healthcare, finding that 40% of the 3,155 respondents believe their staff feel comfortable addressing a workplace violence crisis.

There seems to be a recurring theme of electrical fires in hospitals this year.

Moral injury is taking a mental and emotional toll on healthcare providers everywhere, from those treating refugees from the wars in Ukraine and Sudan to those at home writing prescriptions they know their patients can’t afford.

Keep required documents up to date and ready for surveyors, and have someone within the hospital leadership team available to come in on short notice once your hospital is within six months of its triennial survey date.

Check with the hospital pharmacists and program managers overseeing implementation of the latest updates to the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) standards on what cleaning solutions they need and maintenance concerns they have before the updated USP requirements for non-sterile and sterile drug compounding take effect on November 1.

Get your respiratory protection program up to date and make sure it’s written and enforced, because OSHA inspectors are pressing to put those violations in a category that could mean a penalty of up to $156,259 per violation.