A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology found that hospitals may have dodged financial penalties by billing hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) as present at the time of the patient’s admission. The findings showed that a CMS policy to penalize hospitals for...
This July we’re going to be running two Accreditation and Quality focus groups. The first 10 people to sign up will recieve a free on-demand webinar from HCPro. You only have to do one of the focus groups, on either of these two dates:
This June, The Joint Commission released Quick Safety Issue 42 on identifying human trafficking victims. The Health and Human Services Department estimates that 88% of trafficking victims visit a healthcare provider at least once during their captivity and aren’t recognized as victims.
Citing “stakeholder concerns,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has once again postponed an update to its Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings.
A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) dropped between 2014 and 2016, preventing an estimated 8,000 deaths and saving $2.9 billion.
In this webinar, performance improvement expert Kenneth R. Rohde provides practical techniques and advice to help participants analyze their occurrence reporting process, use data to learn why errors occur, and make improvements that will strengthen patient care and reduce adverse events.
In an incident eerily reminiscent of one that occurred five years ago, a woman was found dead last week in a stairway of the power plant building on the property of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The Los Angeles Times reported that a hospital staff member discovered the body at about...
Boston Children’s Hospital was threatened with termination from Medicare last year after three patients suffered from serious medication errors. An inspection report revealed that one of the patients waited 14 hours for an antibiotic and later died, while two others suffered overdoses of a...
For the coverage of ears, AORN is “probably going to come out in our new guideline and say the ears don’t need to be covered” because the task force feels the research focusing on its necessity has been inconclusive. “However,” she says, “our guideline stands as is until it’s revised.”
