This February, The Joint Commission (TJC) launched a new website with the intent of supporting healthcare organizations in developing their...Read More »
It seems that lately I’ve run into too many instances in which critical infrastructure components have failed because they have reached the end of...Read More »
In 2023, the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Health Interview Survey reported that 24.3% of adults had chronic pain and 8.5% of...Read More »
Regular trash is bad enough, but the things that laboratories throw out are dangerous as well as egregious: used needles and sharps, body fluids,...Read More »
A couple of weeks ago, I was charged with picking up a prescription for my mother-in-law at a chain pharmacy. I dutifully picked up the ‘script...Read More »
In this guest column, Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, laboratory safety officer for multihospital system Sentara Healthcare in Virginia, and otherwise...Read More »
