News Headlines | | Guess who just got dinged after an audit for not doing a risk assessment right? CMS. OSHA will take comments until August 20 on an emergency temporary standard to set COVID-19 worker... Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, is the chief quality and clinical transformation officer at University... When it comes to the management of workplace violence considerations, I think we all have experienced the many, many ways in which these risks can manifest themselves in the healthcare environment. And now that the tides of COVID appear to be receding, the sense of gratefulness that existed (at least for a little while) seems to be on the decline as well. | | |
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance | | Violence against healthcare workers still persists, despite many efforts to combat it. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the incidence of violence-related healthcare worker injuries has steadily increased for at least a decade. And in 2018, healthcare and social service workers were five times more likely to experience workplace violence (WPV) than all other workers—comprising 73% of all nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work. | | |
Healthcare Safety Leader | | While your facility likely has the ability to meet all the new requirements set out by OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS), the first step to ensuring compliance is putting someone in charge of it. (For more, see the article above.) “I would recommend that covered entities begin by reaffirming that there is an appointed COVID-19 administrator,” advises Marge McFarlane, PhD, MT(ASCP), CHSP, CHFM, CJCP, MEP, HEM, an OSHA expert and principal with Superior Performance Consultants, LLC. “I also recommend assigning a backup. They need to know they are responsible for implementing all of the requirements of the ETS.” | | |
Medical Environment Update | | If a year of COVID-19 could be said to have any positives, one is the immense amount of data the pandemic has generated for the healthcare industry. That data has been both vast and valuable, and resulted from a wide array of resources, including medication management solutions. Researchers have begun to dig into the results of this data collection and identified trends that have helped them understand mortality rates during the pandemic and beyond. BD recently published two papers on specific data discoveries during COVID-19, and Kalvin Yu, MD, FIDSA, senior medical director with BD, discusses some of the key takeaways from that research. | | |
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