The CDC states that millions of people each year acquire infections while being treated in a healthcare facility. What is one of the most important ways you can personally help prevent the spread of infection from one patient you are caring for to another?
The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) has received its continued status as an accrediting organization for hospitals through CMS. The notification was posted in the August 28 Federal Register and goes into effect September 25, 2013. Click the link above to read more.
California's latest round of penalties for hospital blunders that resulted in patient harm or death includes a wrong-site surgery, feeding errors, a retained surgical object, and a number of unnecessary "emergency" coronary interventions. Click the link above to read more.
Not to belabor or otherwise abuse the deceased equine, I wanted to share with you a potential solution for those of you who might be struggling with high humidity levels in your surgical procedure areas. Click the link above to read more.
How would you prove that you communicate important quality and patient safety information to the members of the medical staff as well as to appropriate hospital staff?
A California physicians organization is finding that more doctors are dismissing patients because they are uncooperative, refuse to comply with treatment, exhibit drug-seeking behaviors, and increasingly threaten the safety of care providers. Click the link above to read on.
It’s been a fairly busy year when it comes to updates of standards and such and this week we’ll take a look at the new requirements relative to leadership and oversight of the Emergency Management (EM) function. Click the link above to read more.
All hospitals must evaluate whether or not they are willing and able to accept a large influx of infected patients. If a hospital decides it is willing and capable of accepting such patients, what does the hospital need to do?
