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Provisional 2024 data from the Centers for Disease Control show a continuing rise in newborn syphilis, with nearly 4,000 cases reported nationwide, a ...

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

The Joint Commission (TJC) has announced the launch of a new initiative, Survey Analysis For Evaluating STrengths, or SAFEST&...

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  • The Joint Commission
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  • All Healthcare Organizations
FDA Updates
10/15/2025

The following is a list of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Alert: Automated Impella Controller Correction...

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

The Joint Commission (TJC) recently released its annual report of the top most reported sentinel events in 2024. Wrong-site, wrong-procedure, wrong-pa...

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  • The Joint Commission
Relevant To:
  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals

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

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  • 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,...

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  • Department of Health and Human Services,
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
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  • 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...

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  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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  • 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 ...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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  • All Healthcare Organizations

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

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  • 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
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  • All Healthcare Organizations

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

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  • 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...

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