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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
PSOs were created by the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005. What listing means, what it does not mean, and why the confusion matters. “Patient Safety Organization” sounds like a regulator. It is precisely the opposite, and the difference is the whole point of the statute.…