Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Staff Challenge: Environment of Care and Life Safety

September 2, 2014
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The e-SOC is comprised of two basic sections. Name them.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Los Angeles hospital agrees to pay $700,000 in patient dumping case

September 2, 2014
Patient Safety

A Glendale, California hospital has agreed to pay $700,000 in civil penalties to settle a lawsuit accusing the facility of dumping a homeless patient on skid row in June.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Standards revisions align with CMS changes

September 2, 2014
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

New Joint Commission revisions to hospital standards have been made to align with CMS effort to reduce unnecessary requirements.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 14, Issue 9

North Carolina hospital uses Lean methodology to reduce patient falls

September 1, 2014
Quality & Errors

With a few simple interventions, New Hanover Regional Medical Center saw a 22% decline in patient falls and $500,000 in savings.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 14, Issue 9

Study: Adherence to infection control policies lacking in the ICU

September 1, 2014
Infection Control

Researchers find that infection control policies in the ICU vary widely and clinician adherence rates are often low.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 14, Issue 9

Digging deeper into adverse event statistics among various surgical categories

September 1, 2014
Quality & Errors

New study looks at severity of adverse events among different surgical categories and how that data impacts quality improvement.

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 9

Survey eye in the sky

September 1, 2014
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Every survey is a little bit different, but during Maine Medical Partners' most recent survey visit by The Joint Commission, it saw something no one had ever encountered before: The surveyors locked themselves in the bathroom. On purpose. "I've never seen surveyors be quite this interactive,"...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 14, Issue 9

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, September 2014

September 1, 2014
Patient Safety

MRSA and CLABSI updates are coupled with a new commentary on horizontal and vertical infection prevention approaches.

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 9

Briefings on the Joint Commission, September 2014

September 1, 2014
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Every survey is a little bit different, but during Maine Medical Partners' most recent survey visit by The Joint Commission, it saw something no one had ever encountered before: The surveyors locked themselves in the bathroom. On purpose. "I've never seen surveyors be quite this interactive,"...

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 9

What is a risk matrix?

September 1, 2014
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

There has to be a better way of developing risk matrices. This was the theory developed by Alan J. Card, MPH, CPH, CPHQ, PhD, president and CEO of Evidence-Based Health Solutions, LLC, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge Engineering Design Centre while working with his...

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