The Joint Commission has revised its post-survey processes for rendering decisions of Accreditation with Follow-up Survey and Preliminary Denial of Accreditation.
A new report about Minnesota’s adverse event reporting system found that the state’s hospitals reported an increase in errors last year but the lowest number of deaths since 2011.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 3
It was a moment that the healthcare community had been reluctantly anticipating for some time: Medicare payment cuts to hospitals with high healthcare-acquired condition (HAC) rates offers a stark overview of patient safety deficiencies, while also prompting calls regarding the true fairness...
Accreditation specialists have a new tool to use when advocating for compliance with requirements of both their organization's chosen accrediting organization as well as CMS: money.
With the advent of value-based purchasing (VBP), healthcare organizations are already...
