On October 10, Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida, forcing two Florida hospitals to evacuate more than 300 patients due to building damage. On the same day, The Joint Commission (TJC) published a new Emergency Management Health Care Environment Checklist on its website, which helps...
The Joint Commission’s 2019 Executive Briefings were held September 14 in New York City. The discussion on medication management was one of the most far-ranging, with questions on medication compounding, opioids and painkillers, and syringe use asked and answered. The man doing the answering was...
Highlight the ZIP codes where employees live so you can have a handy reference of staff availability in emergencies, keep policies consistent and updated with the most relevant references, and focus suicide prevention efforts on making your physical environment ligature-resistant.
Expect CMS to continue to put pressure on The Joint Commission and other accrediting organizations to find more of the serious fire safety and infection control issues the federal agency says they are still missing during surveys.
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Federal public health officials are urging everyone six months and older to get vaccinated against influenza in the wake of last winter’s severe flu season.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
You can expect renewed interest in your water management program. This summer, CMS sent out a new memo updating its expectations on Legionella infections. The memo, QSO 17-30-Hospitals/CAHs/NHs, was published July 6. It supersedes the former S&C 17-30-Hospitals/CAHs/NHs, issued in June 2017...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
Despite there being a number of methods to correctly identify patients, wrong-patient procedures still occur with distressing frequency. Many if not all of these errors are preventable, yet they still came in third on this year’s sentinel event list.
