True or false: More people are receiving organ/tissue transplants each year, and those individuals who receive transplanted organs/tissues are living much longer.
Attention AHAP Members: Make sure to keep an eye out on the home page and the AHAP blog over the next week or so as the next working group call topic and date will be announced.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 21, Issue 6
In 2007, The Joint Commission issued the Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) standard as a means to evaluate a privilege-specific competence of a practitioner who does not have documented competency executing the privilege. The October 2008 FAQs on FPPE (often referred to as...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 21, Issue 6
For years, the Medical Staff standard MS.01.01.01 has been a battleground for hospitals—an ongoing issue of bylaws versus rules and regulations and the right way for organized medical staffs, medical executive committees (MEC), and governing boards to interact.
Engaged nurses who feel like they work in an organization that values their efforts and opinions have an incredibly positive effect on the quality of care patients receive. Studies have shown that organizational support for nursing leads to better quality of care, which can reduce mortality...
The Cancer Treatment Centers (CTC) of America at Midwestern Regional Medical Center in Zion, IL, believes in the “mother standard of care,” or treating patients as if they are family members or “your own mother,” says Kimberly Bertini, RN, Coordinator for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® at...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 21, Issue 6
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released Common Formats Version 1.1, including technical specifications, which will help hospitals further standardize the collection and reporting of data related to patient safety events. Patient safety events include unsafe conditions...
When Heather Forbes, RN, BSN, CEN, CSHA, HACP, accreditation and regulatory coordinator at Southern Maine Medical Center (SMMC) in Biddeford, first took over the role of survey coordinator, she looked at the entire process of accreditation and asked one simple but encompassing question: “...
