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: Sharon Chaput, RN, CSHA, is the director of regulatory and quality management at Brattleboro (Vt.) Retreat and advisory board member for both Briefings on The Joint Commission and the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals.
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...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 3
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.
