Editor’s note: The following is an edited Q&A from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation’s (AAMI) webinar, “Clarifying the Changes to Joint Commission and CMS Standards.” The webinar talked about the changes to The Joint Commission’s maintenance...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 6
Editor’s note: This is the first year that Medicaid in all 50 states has adopted some form of telemedicine coverage. While technology has allowed for new and creative ways to connect patients and providers, deciphering the laws surrounding them can be difficult. The rules...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 6
Editor’s note: The following is an article written by Maria Del Pilar Messner, corporate director of accreditation, regulations, and licensing at Adventist Health.
On May 18, 2012, CMS initiated the Patient Safety Initiative which included...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 6
After a year of anticipation, Joint Commission surveyors finally started checking for compliance with the 2012 Life Safety Code® (LSC) and Health Care Facilities Code. The changes apply to the accreditor’s Environment of Care (EC) and Life Safety (LS) chapters. One set of chapter revisions took...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 6
There's been much ado about The Joint Commission's new scoring system, the Survey Analysis for Evaluating Risk (SAFER) matrix. The matrix is a 3 x 3 grid with the Y-axis ranking the likelihood of a problem occurring and the X-axis measuring how widespread the issue is. The matrix replaced the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 5
The Joint Commission in March unveiled Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) 57, which stresses the role of leadership in developing and sustaining a culture of safety. It goes on to claim that leadership’s failure in this regard contributes to several adverse events, including wrong site surgery and...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 5
Editor’s note: The ECRI Institute published its annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards for the industry. Readers will note that several of the top hazards in 2017 are the same as those...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 5
Editor’s note: Each year, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) Institute creates a Quality Roadmap report highlighting different findings related to improving the accreditation process. In the 2016 report, AAAHC found the three top deficiency...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 5
he Joint Commission announced it was changing its interim life safety measure (ILSM) evaluation process back in November 2016. From now on, the accreditor stated, when a surveyor identifies a Requirement for Improvement (RFI) level deficiency they’ll confer with the facility to pick the most...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 4
Editor’s note: This article was written by Marlene K. Strader, RN, PhD, andElizabeth Di Giacomo-Geffers, RN, MPH, CSHA, a healthcare consultant in Trabuco Canyon, California, and a former Joint Commission surveyor.
