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Featured Story | | It’s Official: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency to End on May 11 | | As promised, the White House is giving ample notice—the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) will end on May 11. In a statement January 30, the White House said it would end the PHE, which has allowed hospitals and other providers a number of compliance and other waivers to help ease the burden on healthcare. |
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News & Analysis | | Hospital EDs Are Taking a Proactive Approach to Violence | | At Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts, administrators are tapping into the electronic health record platform to identify ED patients with a history of threatening behavior, which pushes out alerts to the care team. Those alerts not only give providers advance warning, but can help them call in behavioral healthcare specialists to help those patients. |
| Pandemic's Toll: 55.3% of Surveyed Healthcare Workers Report Subthreshold PTSD Symptoms | | The recent study, which was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, is based on survey data collected from 852 healthcare workers from January 2021 to February 2021. The survey participants were recruited from emergency departments affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and emergency medical service agencies in several states, including Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. |
| Addressing Workplace Conflict: A Fireside Chat | | In this Feb. 28 fireside chat, AlGene Caraulia, vice president of Integration and Sustainability for Crisis Prevention Institute, discusses how healthcare organizations can identify, prevent, and de-escalate crises in the workplace. Learn how to develop skills to recognize and respond to everyday crisis situations with strategies including nonviolent crisis intervention and verbal intervention. |
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| Product Spotlight | | Drug Diversion Prevention in Healthcare, Second Edition is loaded with tools and info showing you how to make a solid prevention plan. This edition also contains case studies and real-life examples of how healthcare staff diverted drugs, how they were caught, and the steps taken afterwards. Order now! | | |
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