Editor’s note:Beginning this month, Briefings on Accreditation and Quality (BOAQ) is publishing its articles on a weekly basis. Each week in Accreditation Insider, a new article from that month’s issue of BOAQ will be featured with a link to the article for subscribers to...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 10
In August, Morehead Memorial Hospital of Eden, North Carolina, became the 150th hospital in the United States to receive ISO 9001:2008 certification from DNV-GL Healthcare. To earn it, Morehead had to undergo four years of preparation and surveys from the DNV, in addition to...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 10
Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt from The Joint Commission's recent webinar "Managing patient outcomes: The battle against sepsis!" discussing its disease-specific care program for the condition. ...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 10
The Joint Commission's new standards for residential and outpatient eating disorder programs went into effect on July 1. The standards expand and add more specific guidelines on the care of eating disorder patients. It's important to note that these standards only appear in the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 10
High reliability is a new term for an old concept: providing the highest quality products or services consistently and uniformly to all customers. There has been a host of tools, guidelines, initiatives, and programs focused on high reliability in nearly every industry....