Imagine a patient is admitted to your hospital from a trauma unit. A history is taken, multiple staff members evaluate her, and she is brought up to the inpatient unit. There, staff are hands on, helping her to walk to the bathroom and focusing on getting her better. She...
The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal 07.05.01 on surgical site infections has been modified, and surveyors have currently stopped citing organizations that are out of compliance with element of performance (EP) 5 of the standard.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 8
Medication safety as a concept seems simple. To ensure patients safely receive the right medication and dose, implement proven methods to avoid errors. To discover those methods, look at where problems almost or actually occur. But in a hospital, a fear-based hierarchy and...
Last week US News and World Report released its annual list of top hospitals. The New York Times takes a look at what this annual ranking means for patients and what is says about American healthcare. Click the link above to read the full article.
While we are on the subject of the CMS, you may be interested to know that an update of the State Operations Manual (which is basically the foundation resource for the conduction of CMS surveys) was unveiled on June 7. Click the link above to read more.
The Joint Commission recently approved several revisions to ambulatory care standards, effective January 1, 2014, to ensure that these accreditation requirements remain relevant. Click the link above to read more about the revisions.
