Editor’s note: The following article first appeared in the April 2016 edition of PSQH, and was written by members of the National Patient Safety Foundation including Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, chief operating officer and senior vice president of programs, ...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 2
Hospitals seeking accreditation have more options than ever. The Joint Commission, DNV, and AAHHS (which acquired HFAP in 2015) are all well established, but don’t count out the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ).
CIHQ was founded in 1999 as a hospital consulting company...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 2
BOAQ: How big an impact will the addition of EP 12 of LD.01.03.01 make on hospitals, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory surgical centers? Will this require a significant change on their part?
Fennel: This brings the Joint Commission standards more in alignment...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 2
When it comes to healthcare quality improvement, electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) are the way of the future. Or at least that’s what many are betting on. This year, Joint Commission-accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals will be required to choose six out 13 possible eCQMs...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 2
Last year, the American Hospital Association (AHA) sent two letters to President Trump asking him to reform CMS regulatory requirements. In the letters, AHA CEO and president Rick Pollack wrote that the balance between flexibility in patient care and regulatory burden was at a tipping point...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 2
The Joint Commission has reversed its position on the use of text messaging to send patient care orders, once again banning the practice months after saying they were acceptable
The original ban had been put in place in 2011 because at the time there were concerns over:
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