It is often said that the accreditation world is growing more streamlined. With Joint Commission standards more aligned with CMS requirements than ever before, and The Joint Commission's two primary competitors, the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program and Det Norske Veritas, basing their...
Event reporting varies widely from facility to facility, and the kind of medical record system a facility uses (paper or electronic) can have a dramatic effect on its data collection and what can be done with that work. So when Jennifer Trallo, RN, MSN, MBA, director of quality...
Medicare recently amplified its effort to improve healthcare quality and reduce costs by naming 89 new accountable care organizations (ACO). The ACO experiment-built upon increased care coordination, outcome-based incentives, and movement away from fee-for-service reimbursement-began...
There are certain requirements and regulatory factors that pose perpetual challenges for hospitals, familiar burdens that elicit nods of understanding and sympathy when organizations discuss the barriers to successfully keeping themselves in compliance. The recently relaxed "30-...
True or False: Most hazardous materials/waste spills in hospital are of a minor threat to people or the environment. As a result, most of the time, the spills can be easily mopped up.
Provider groups that claim to be accountable care organizations (ACOs) now have a way to prove it through an accreditation program offered by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
