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Writing from CareGuard on patient safety in long-term care: what a Patient Safety Organization is and is not, deprescribing and dementia care, restraint reduction, and why the reporting channel is built the way it is.
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Why we stopped saying “certified”
CareGuard attested to AHRQ that it does not accredit or license providers. The old website said the opposite. Here is the correction and why it matters. CareGuard’s previous website was built almost entirely on a word CareGuard is not entitled to use. This is the correction, in public,…
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What a Patient Safety Organization actually is
A Patient Safety Organization is an organization listed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through AHRQ, that collects and analyzes confidential patient safety data from providers so they can learn from their own failures. Listing confers no authority over any provider and is not a license…