The Joint Commission has released its latest "Speak Up"™ campaign, targeting patient education on medical imaging tests. The Speak Up series is an ongoing program helping educate patients on key issues to assist in building a more safe patient experience in easy-to-understand ways...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 2
Accreditation and safety are inherently tied together, but connecting the two has been a challenge for many organizations. By building leadership connections and through continued improvements by accrediting organizations on how the industry approaches safety issues, it is possible to change...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 2
Every healthcare organization has a process for annual performance appraisals; in fact, it is a requirement. The strategy, implementation, and functional steps in any annual performance appraisal process or system are innately similar to the focused standards assessment that is...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 2
Few things in work create as much apprehension and stress as the annual evaluation. It is a laborious, tedious, and essential requirement of leadership, which at times feels like an impossible standard: How do you capture an entire year's worth of performance in a conversation...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 1
As a new year dawns, accreditation professionals look ahead at where the problematic and challenging areas will be for the coming 12 months. A good starting point for many is the annual list of most-cited standards from The Joint Commission. This year, as in years past, the top 10...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 1
In a memo dated October 31, 2014, the CMS Center for Clinical Standard and Quality/Survey and Certification Group targeted patient safety in a number of announcements.
Specifically, the memo addresses the 2015 Hospital Patient Safety Initiative (PSI). First, the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 1
The Accreditation Association for Hospitals/Health Systems (AAHHS) will now offer an accreditation program for critical access hospitals and rural hospitals with less than 200 beds.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 1
This year has been full of interesting healthcare topics worthy of a year-end wrap-up. We start our journey with the idea of emergency medical services (EMS) helping with readmissions and end with one of the world's scariest viruses to date.
Community...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 12
The Joint Commission recently released a new chapter to the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) entitled Patient Safety Systems. The chapter is intended to encourage organizations to build more high-reliability environments, specifically working to promote and foster high-...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 12
Is everything you need to know in the medical record? While we rely on the medical record (be it paper, electronic, or hybrid) to create a complete portrait of a patient's overall care, the human factor can interfere with making sure everything makes it into the record. There are...
