Up in the blogosphere with The Joint Commission
- Leading Hospital Improvement — Winning Practices in Workplace Violence Prevention: With 773 licensed beds, SSM Health is Oklahoma’s largest healthcare campus with a significant behavioral health presence. Attacks had been escalating, and in 2020, staff members were instrumental in changing the legislation to classify aggravated assault as a felony, writes Elain Richardson, Regional Chief Nursing Officer, SSM Health Oklahoma; George Benard, Regional Vice President of Emergency Services, SSM Health Oklahoma; and Jimmy Durant, Director of Government Affairs, SSM Health Oklahoma.
- Improvement Insights — Crisis Standards of Care Lessons from COVID-19: In the open-access article, “Hospital Planning for Contingency and Crisis Conditions: Crisis Standards of Care Lessons from COVID-19,” from an upcoming issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, the authors try to offer hospitals a roadmap to plan for these situations.
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