Meeting Joint Commission expectations with your Emergency Code Carts…
The Joint Commission is an independent, nonprofit organization that accredits U.S. healthcare organizations to promote patient safety and quality of care. When it comes to code carts, The Joint Commission looks for simple but critical things: that carts are consistently stocked, properly organized, securely locked, and checked on a routine basis. Their goal is to ensure that in an emergency, staff can access the right equipment and medications immediately, without confusion, delays, or missing items.
Designing for Dignity: How Thoughtful Emergency Department Spaces Improve Patient Outcomes
Patients arriving at an emergency center often experience the same mix of emotions: pain, fear, and a distinct loss of control. Vulnerable moments like these send powerful messages: Either they're safe and cared for, or they’re just another case to process.
Waterloo Healthcare Newsletter – December 2025
As the holiday season draws near, the entire Waterloo Healthcare team wants to extend our sincerest thanks to our incredible distributor partners and customers. Partnership and trust mean everything to us, and we're deeply grateful for the relationships we've built together. This year, we had so many opportunities to connect with you at conferences and shows across the country. We engaged in conversations that energize and inspire everything we do. We also had the pleasure of sharing valuable insights through the many articles and blogs we published throughout the year, and we hope you found them useful. Here's to continued success as we close out the year 2025! Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season and a happy, healthy New Year!
Best Practices for Clinicians: Effective Use of Code Carts in Emergency Resuscitation
Strategies to reduce emergency response times and improve ACLS compliance, standardize cart configurations, and enhance patient outcomes during cardiac arrest and medical emergencies often come down to actionable best practices for code cart management. Most of the time, this includes maintenance checklists, training protocols, and quality improvement metrics to make systems significantly easier to maintain.
Reducing Burnout in Emergency Medicine: Systemic Solutions Beyond Self-Care
Emergency medicine physicians and nurses face some of the highest burnout rates in healthcare. So many experience symptoms of emotional exhaustion, but that's only the beginning. It's become imperative that healthcare facilities that want to retain talented emergency medicine professionals look beyond individual resilience to address any issues that cause burnout.
Waterloo Healthcare Newsletter – September 2025
Controlled Substance Locks, Fall Conferences, and More Great Information In this newsletter, we unravel the critical importance of controlled substance locks on procedure carts and share essential maintenance tips for cleaning medical carts. We'll also unpack the evolution of healthcare emergency response systems.