We scoured The Joint Commission's (formerly JCAHO, ) 2014 Hospital Accreditation Standards, and came away with 5 tidbits you might have overlooked, but may impact your compliance and accreditation.*
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A few weeks ago, the European Union made some changes to it’s “Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice of medicinal products for human use.” We realized it had been a few months since we had updated our own knowledge of these practices, and instead of read through them, stomach the information,...
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So many of the blogs, articles, and news stories you read before Thanksgiving will only focus on those that have the day off. Unfortunately, if you work in Healthcare, specifically Healthcare food service, there is a good chance you’re working.
Read More1. The rules are a little wishy-washy.
Regulations, Recommendations, and Guidelines. Three different terms that mean three different things. Yet they are thrown around in quality assurance departments everywhere, with question marks all too often lingering behind them.
Read MoreAs the above image suggests, monitoring vaccines can be a little confusing. That’s why we here at Dickson created the following list, which outlines six things to know about monitoring vaccines, summarized directly from the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC’s) recommendations. Failing an audit or...
Read MoreOn July 28, CBS aired a 60 Minutes special on Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation, and Bill Gates’ goal to eradicate preventable diseases.
Read MoreRecently, Good Morning America (GMA) highlighted a government report that calls into question the proper storage of vaccines throughout the US. The report focused on vaccines in the Vaccine for Children program, but the GMA story illuminates that this issue is prevalent with vaccines not provided...
Read MoreThis is part four of our Cold Chain Summit Series. You can read part one, part two, and part three to catch up. Quickly though, we've been discussing what the Cold Chain is, why it is important and how it impacts your products and goods.
Read MoreThis is the third part of our Cold Chain Summit Series. In part one of this series we discussed what the cold chain is and why it is important. In part two we discussed stability testing and why that is important.
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