Hospitals should continue to conduct routine risk assessments to determine how well their infection control strategies are working before rushing to adopt a highly touted and possibly costly new protocol, says a member of the Board of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control...
Operating under the assumption that the government is moving toward enacting reimbursement penalties for all-cause readmissions, some hospitals and readmission prevention experts are already developing corresponding strategies.
CMS has proposed to revise the survey, certification, and enforcement procedures related to CMS oversight of national accreditation organizations (The Joint Commission, DNV Healthcare, and the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program or HFAP). These revisions would implement certain...
True or False: The plan of care should be considered a living document that needs to be continually reviewed and revised as the patients’ care needs change.
The Joint Commission has released the latest of its ongoing “Speak Up ™” campaign, this time intended to provide advice on identifying the warning signs of depression and getting the most out of care and treatment for depression. Click the link above for more information.
In the pages of BOJ, we often explore the results of Joint Commission surveys, looking at RFIs, identifying specific target standards, and more. But discussion of this information is often tempered by a nervousness that somehow talking over the survey results might be unwelcome either by the...
There is a whole field of medicine related to keeping patients safe in hospitals, and many of these professionals' daily jobs involve making sure patients are helped, not harmed, while receiving hospital care.
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. This month, we take a look at how peer review can influence your culture of safety.