A new three-hospital system in Escondido, CA boasts design features that enhance quality improvement, including seven or eight evidence-based features that set it apart from any other hospital in the nation.
We’re gearing up for the next issue of the AHAP Insider, and we’re looking for AHAP members who have a success story they’d like to share in an upcoming newsletter article. If you are interested in sharing your successes and initiatives, or just have a topic suggestion you’d like to hear...
In 2008, CMS published a ruling to stop reimbursing hospitals for certain healthcare-associated infections (HAI), including catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). Four years later, that decision has made...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 9
Cultural awareness has risen to the top of healthcare development and concerns in recent years. Ensuring that patients' needs are met, that they understand the education given to them, that appropriate translation services are provided-all of these components and more must be built into a...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 9
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 management at...
In 2009, The Joint Commission added Leadership standard LD.03.01.01, "Leaders create and maintain a culture of safety and quality throughout the hospital," to recognize that behavior that intimidates others and affects staff morale and turnover can also be damaging to patient care, and to...
