Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual education and awareness campaign for healthcare safety sponsored by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), is this week, March 3-9, 2013. Join in activities this week at your own facility or online to recognize the advancements that have been...
Join us for the 7th Annual AHAP Conference on June 6-7 in Las Vegas! Previous attendees can attest – The AHAP conference provides invaluable knowledge and education you can’t get anywhere else. And if you’re a member, don’t forget you receive a discounted price. Plus, save an extra $100 off...
The Joint Commission has released the latest in its ongoing series of “Speak Up” patient education and self-advocacy videos this week. This latest video addresses pain and how a patient, as well as their families, can take an active role in their own pain management and assessment....
The threat of penalties as high as 3% of a hospital's Medicare reimbursement has prompted encouraging reductions in costly readmissions, a top representative of the Obama administration told the Senate Finance Committee yesterday. Source:...
Editor's note: Culture Club is a new Patient Safety Monitor Journal feature that focuses on how combining safety efforts creates a more effective overall culture of safety.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 3
In 2010, staff at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., started to become interested in new UV light technology as a possibility to help reduce infections. Although the hospital had lower than average infection rates, infection control staff were having trouble...
