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Q: The surveyor found three behavioral health H&Ps not placed in the record within 24 hours of admission. Two H&Ps for patients in the endoscopy center had timed entries of 1:17a.m. and 1:23a.m, making it unlikely that the physician had conducted the H&Ps at those times as...
The Joint Commission announced last week the appointment of Ann Scott Blouin, PhD, RN, FACHE, to the position of Executive Vice President of Customer Relations, effective June 4.
If you haven’t joined in on the discussions taking place on “AHAP Talk” you’re missing out on a wealth of information. Some of the recent discussion topics (to name only a few) in the past month have been: sample medications, RC.02.01.01 EP 1- communication needs, date and time entries, and...
If you haven’t had a chance yet to participate in this year’s Accreditation Professional Salary Survey, make sure you check it out by the end of this week. It is completely anonymous, as always. Remember, the more participants we...
Many hospitals struggle with readmissions, and sometimes a readmission might be out of the control of the hospital. Still, when Jan Williams, RN, BSN, program director for the Health Enhancement Program (HEP) at Mary Lanning Memorial Healthcare (MLMH) in Hastings, Neb., and the...
The best way to mass vaccinate the general public during flu season is to make flu shots as accessible as possible, and access doesn't get any easier then rolling down your window and rolling up your sleeve.
Patient safety has long stood on a variety of tenets, some of which have formed the process and basis for how professionals (both leaders and clinicians) conduct improvement work. Some of these are well-known and accepted: Patient safety is a right. A high level of patient safety performance...
