Hospitals are feeling the heat to reduce readmissions, with 2,610 receiving fines from Medicare for having too many patients return within 30 days for more treatment.
In any organization's quality department there lives a nefarious, ever-present beast. It's usually in paper form and comprises a list of seemingly innocuous phrases or sentences and to the far right is the "checkbox." It's easy to become disdainful of checklists, but the reality is they play...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some interesting, if not entirely unexpected news: facilities and physical environment issues continue...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
In what could be called one of the better Sentinel Event Alerts (SEA) released in recent years, The Joint Commission has taken aim at tubing misconnections in its August 20 release of "Managing risk during transition to new ISO tubing connector standards."
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
In this era of mergers, acquisitions, and the building of replacement hospital facilities, many survey coordinators are faced with maintaining an overall inventory of licenses, accreditations, and certifications. This list is not only a regulatory requirement but is an important element of...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some interesting, if not entirely unexpected news: facilities and physical environment issues continue...
In a research report released in May by The RAND Corporation, entitled Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management, researchers from RAND Health, ECRI Institute, the University of Texas, and Baylor College of Medicine studied 11 hospitals and...
Experts outline changes to tracking and prevention of ventilator-associated events, along with hand hygiene best practices and commentary from The Joint Commission.
