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
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.
A new report released Feb. 19 recognizes Dayton; Ohio, Phoenix; Cincinnati; and Milwaukee, among others, as the nation’s top hospitals and cities for hospital care based on in-hospital mortality rates.
Motivated by improved efficiencies and monetary incentives, healthcare is migrating to electronic health records. While this solves the issue of physicians' sloppy handwriting on paper, and creates a host of opportunities for the digitized data, it is creating a new set of challenges.
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 $...
Here is a story that will cause more than one hospital to take a look at its own policies and procedures: Earlier this week an 11-year-old cancer survivor and patient of Doernbecher Children’s Hospital ran from her hospital room with the front of her tee-shirt on fire. The child, who will need...
