CMS suspends restrictions on care venues as providers tackle COVID-19 surges

Source: Hospital Safety Insider

Now allowing hospitals to clear precious bed capacity by triaging non-COVID-19 patients in...

Duke Health to begin reusing N95 masks

Source: Hospital Safety Insider

Researchers at Duke Health this week announced a way to sterilize masks using aerosolized hydrogen...

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

Source: Hospital Safety Insider

Although there are differences between the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the recent...

34 States Granted Medicaid 1135 Waivers to Fight COVID-19

Source: Hospital Safety Insider

The federal government announced Friday that 34 states have been granted expedited 1135 Medicaid...

Rock on: Where do we go from here?

Source: Mac's Safety Space

It would seem that the subtext to all we are experiencing/dealing with now is how long we can anticipate this “siege” to last...

Lessons from pandemics past

The test of our ability to keep the healthcare system running in the face of the coronavirus...

Accrediting organizations suspend most survey activities to focus on COVID-19

 All four hospital AOs have suspending most or all survey activities during the national...

My PPE is backordered--now what? COVID-19 alternate safe practices

Some of the items that have become very hard to get include personal protective equipment (PPE...

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