Identify the standard where leadership will be held ­accountable for noncompliance Every fall, The Joint Commission unveils updated statistics regarding the standards and ­National Patient Safety Goals that have been causing the most ­problems with compliance out in the field. As in years past,...

By the time the general public hears about an impaired clinician, whether it's a nurse, technician, or physician, it is often too late to head an incident involving that clinician off at the pass-whether that incident is a medical error, diversion of medication, or something even worse, like the...

The threat of loss of accreditation is one that keeps survey coordinators and hospital leaders awake at night, but for most hospitals, it's more of a bogeyman than an actual threat-there are many stages an organization must go through and fail before their accrediting bodies slam the hammer down...

There are three separate tag numbers that hospitals must review in order to understand the CMS requirements for standing orders, protocols, and order sets. ­Additionally, CMS included information on this topic in the changes to the hospital Conditions of Participation (CoP), which were published...