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If a major disaster struck your community, how many of your employees would show up for work?
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Even before hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the Gulf Coast, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, worried that small communities were not doing enough to prepare for a disaster.
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Editors note: This e-mail was written by Pamela McVey, RN, CIC, chief nursing officer at Biloxi (MS) Regional Medical Center, to a chief nursing officer in Natchez, MS. McVey was formerly director of infection control/employee health at the hospital. She gave Hospital Employee Health permission to reprint this e-mail, and added this postscript: " We all understand that there is no getting back to normal. We are now in the process of redefining what is normal. There is a great spirit here in the coastal counties of Mississippi. Well be OK."
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Health care workers were heroes of Hurricane Katrina as they worked under grueling conditions to keep their patients alive despite lack of electricity, air conditioning and water, and sewer service.
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This is an excerpt from the Guidelines for Using Quantiferon-TB Gold issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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After years of frustration with tuberculin skin tests, hospitals have a chance to revolutionize their TB screening with a new blood test.
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In a major new emphasis on patient safety, the JCAHO is warning that failure to keep track of the medications needed by transferred patients is resulting in preventable deaths.
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For many hospitals, encouraging health care workers (HCWs) to receive the flu vaccine is an annual exercise in futility.
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In requesting input whether it should develop a standard requiring seasonal flu immunization, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) made the following key points: ...
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Mandating seasonal health care worker flu vaccinations -- an issue so contentious it led to open revolt in the first U.S. hospital that tried it ...