During the 2021 Executive Briefing session, Ana Pujols McKee, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer, chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer for The Joint Commission (TJC) spoke about the importance of educating governing boards and offered a set of best...
Develop an onboarding education program for new hospital governing board members that emphasizes each member’s responsibility to ensure safety and quality of care and services for patients.
The most ubiquitous tools in healthcare include blood pressure cuffs (BPC) and other blood pressure (BP) measuring devices, and their importance can’t be overstated.
This month, we continue our review of The Joint Commission’s new and revised workplace violence (WPV) prevention requirements effective January 1, 2022. The Joint Commission issued three new elements of performance (EP) to existing standards and two revised EPs.
When the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline was launched nationally in July 2022, many viewed it as a huge step forward in mental healthcare. However, since its rollout, some have taken to social media to decry the Lifeline, claiming potential abuses of patient rights. And those unsure of what’s...
It’s hurricane season, and the time to prepare was yesterday. As climate change increases the strength and frequency of hurricanes and storms, hospitals and healthcare facilities in hurricane-prone areas need to be vigilant about staying prepared—harden their facilities, train their staff, and...
The U.S. healthcare staffing crisis is severely impacting patients. Among other effects, it is causing a dramatic increase in the length of expensive hospital stays.
Four in 10 hospitals have struggled to appropriately discharge patients due to staffing shortages (Reed, 2022). Moreover,...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) is crafting its 2023–2026 National Health Security Strategy (NHSS). ASPR officials say this guidance will present an opportunity for security leaders to take the...
Before COVID-19, deaths from antimicrobial resistance were headed in the right direction, decreasing by nearly 30% in hospitals between 2012 and 2017. But in 2020, resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths both increased by 15% compared to 2019.
