In early October, the Accreditation Association, the parent company of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) announced it had acquired the Health Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) from the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 12
Boston Medical Center continues to successfully reduce unnecessary clinical alarms
Clinical alarm fatigue is a major concern for hospitals, as evidenced by The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal on the topic and its appearance as the top...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 11
With an increasing number of regulations, National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG), Sentinel Event Alerts, and changes in procedure, medical staff may feel like they're stuck in an endless cycle of creating and approving new policies, including policies that they may not really need to approve...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 11
Less than five minutes after I was offered the position of accreditation and regulatory coordinator, panic set in. I was joining a world that I knew very little about, and a role that would impact the care patients received every single day.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 11
There is no magic structure, and one size does not fit all, but there are some general guidelines that can be helpful in structuring a tracer training program, implementing tracers, and reporting tracer findings. Much depends on how big the organization is, or is not, and the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 11
Work-life balance is a foreign term to most people in healthcare. Our industry is very good at taking care of other people, but it's not so great at taking care of its own. Part of the driving force behind this mismatch is the constant drive to always take care of those in need, without...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 10
When The Joint Commission released its list of the five most-cited standards for the first half of 2015, it was not surprising that infection control, specifically IC.02.02.01 (reduction of infection risk from equipment, devices, and supplies), jumped into the second spot.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 10
Burnout drains organizations of their mission and leads to costly and sometimes lethal consequences. Quint Studer, in his new book Healing Physician Burnout, defines burnout as a progressive loss of idealism, energy, and purpose. The good news is that while the problem of burnout may...
