In a new memo to its state survey agencies, CMS said it would use Joint Commission ligature recommendations—drawn from a task force that was convened by the commission and included several CMS suicide prevention experts—as the federal agency goes forward with clarifying and updating Interpretive...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
As infection prevention challenges evolve—such as emerging infectious organisms and resistance—healthcare organizations must focus on preventing hospital-acquired infections and ensuring better patient outcomes.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
Dialysis is one of the three main topics that have come up repeatedly at Joint Commission presentations, along with sterile compounding and pain standards. And there’s been a corresponding uptick in scoring for all of these areas in 2018.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
HFAP, one of the oldest accrediting organizations for U.S. hospitals, recently updated 13 of its standards to align with the expectations on ligature risk and other hazards that CMS outlined in a memo in December 2017. The standards have been approved by CMS, but will not be revised again in...
In a new memo to its state survey agencies, CMS said it would use Joint Commission ligature recommendations—drawn from a task force that was convened by the commission and included several CMS suicide prevention experts—as the federal agency goes forward with clarifying and updating Interpretive...
A new review of 144 studies found that healthcare-associated infections (HAI) can be reduced by as much as 55% through the implementation of evidence-based infection prevention and control strategies.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 1:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern
In this three-hour virtual workshop, learn about the hot spots in hospital compliance in such areas as ligature risk, high-level disinfection and sterilization, titration and therapeutic duplication, sterile compounding and USP 797,...
