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News Headlines | Preventing opioid overprescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic | The U.S. has wrestled with the demons of the opioid epidemic for decades, and even a global pandemic can’t stop that. But so much has changed during the past year in terms of healthcare. The use of opioids, both appropriate and inappropriate, has appeared to change too, sometimes in surprising ways. We know that overdoses quickened their pace in 2020, according to the CDC. The CDC identified over 81,000 drug overdoses in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number ever in a 12-month period. And while those numbers were increasing prior to COVID-19, the latest data indicate the numbers accelerated further during the pandemic. According to the CDC: |
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Newsletter Articles | TJC adds IM standard to address CMS rule on e-notification | Update policies and check with your information technology (IT) team to ensure you are meeting CMS requirements for electronic medical record (EMR) interoperability that were outlined in two final rules issued last year, including one that updated hospital Conditions of Participation (CoP) for medical record services related to discharging patients. |
Taking aim at sepsis: Targeted solutions tool | The Center has been working on sepsis care improvement since 2012. To that end, it’s created a Reducing Sepsis Mortality Targeted Solutions Tool (TST) that makes customized recommendations for healthcare facilities. The tool is free to Joint Commission-accredited customers. Barnes was on the team that developed the tool after leading two cohorts of five hospitals each through sepsis quality improvement projects. |
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| Analyzing the Hospital Life Safety Survey, Fourth Edition | Life safety expert and independent consultant Brad Keyes, CHSP, provides a practical, strategic approach to the life safety survey process. He walks you through a room-by-room, floor-by-floor analysis of the life safety measures you must have in place to avoid costly citations. The book simplifies Joint Commission standards and CMS requirements and focuses on ways to pass your next life safety survey. | |
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