The Joint Commission’s plan to implement CMS telemedicine standards for hospitals, both acute and critical access, has been pushed back until March 2011, according to an official announcement from the accrediting body.
True or false: It is important to ensure that we provide information to our patients in a manner in which they can understand. This may include the use of translation or interpretive services, as well as ensuring that the information is in a format at a grade level and in a language...
True or false: It is important to train staff members to be able to recognize early warning signs of cardiac or respiratory arrest because early response to these changes may reduce cardiopulmonary arrests and deaths.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a notice of proposed changes to the inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS). These proposed changes include language for adoption of two healthcare acquired infection (HAI) measures: central-line associated blood...
True or false: More people are receiving organ/tissue transplants each year, and those individuals who receive transplanted organs/tissues are living much longer.
Attention AHAP Members: Make sure to keep an eye out on the home page and the AHAP blog over the next week or so as the next working group call topic and date will be announced.
True or false: It is important for patients and families to understand the individual patients’ risks for falls, and the specific measures that are being used to prevent them from falling.
The Joint Commission has released its list of the most cited standards for 2009. Unsurprisingly, the list contains many Life Safety Code and Environment of Care standards, primarily regarding fire safety, which have been prominent in previous lists of top-cited standards by the accrediting body...
True or false: Staff members must receive training on the use and management of restraint and seclusion, and their competency to perform must be assessed annually.
