Every few months we like to send out a request looking for member success stories—a new policy, a successful way of addressing a top cited standard, a new quality initiative—that a member has been a part of at their organization and would like to let people know about. As many of you know,...
The hospital’s governing board is responsible for identifying what positions are responsible for planning, marketing, and operations. Where will you find this information documented?
The Joint Commission, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and 22 other organizations are celebrating National Fire Prevention Week, October 7-13, by commemorating the one year anniversary of the...
The Joint Commission and the American Medical Association (AMA)-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI) held the National Summit for Overuse last week to discuss strategies to improve patient care quality and minimize overuse of certain treatments
Hello, AHAP members. Every so often the association is approached by an organization seeking an accreditation professional and asks us to share a job posting. We’re happy to provide this service for our members whenever we can. Below is the complete listing for an opportunity we were...
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...
