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The Joint Commission recently released their Sentinel Event Data 2024 Annual Review summarizing the reports made to TJC’s sentinel event databas...

Sources:
  • The Joint Commission
Relevant To:
  • Assisted Living,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Home Health,
  • Hospitals,
  • Long Term Care,
  • Hospice

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced a settlement with five health care providers,...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services,
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its adult and child immunization schedules to reflect recent recommendations from the...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

In November 2024, CMS released the 2025 Final Rule for the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory Surgical ...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals

The 2025 US Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Recommendation...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The following is the status of U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) operations during the government shutdown: Claims Processin...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has revised its survey process for Rural Health Centers (RHCs) following regulatory updates to ...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • Rural Health Clinics

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) has announced the CMS National Training Program page will no longer be updated and the site ...

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  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

In an effort to promote transparency, accountability, and compliance across all federally funded programs and to strengthen oversight and promote time...

Sources:
  • Department of Health and Human Services,
  • Miscellaneous
Relevant To:
  • Medical Office,
  • Rural Health Clinics
FDA Updates
09/25/2025

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration updates and activities: Early Alert: TactiFlex Ablation Catheter Issue fr...

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  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, University of Oxford with Duke University co...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network is reporting a substantial rise in carbapenem-re...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals,
  • Long Term Care,
  • Ambulatory Care,
  • Rural Health Clinics

The Joint Commission (TJC), in collaboration with the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), has released new guidance on the responsible use of artificial i...

Sources:
  • The Joint Commission
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recently released influenza vacc...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Assisted Living,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Home Health,
  • Hospitals,
  • Community Mental Health Centers,
  • Long Term Care,
  • Ambulatory Care,
  • Pharmacy,
  • Rural Health Clinics
FDA Updates
09/17/2025

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration updates and activities: Do Not Use Unauthorized Devices for Measuring Blo...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations