We’re looking for AHAP members who have a success story they’d like to share, either at our next working group call or in an upcoming newsletter article? If you are interested in speaking at our next working group call, sharing your successes, or just have a topic suggestion you’d like to...
Editor's note: Columnist Catherine Hinz, MHA, works as a leader in patient safety at HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn. Previously, she worked at PatientSafe Solutions, Inc., and has completed a patient safety internship with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...
Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections: A Global Challenge, A Global Perspective, is the monograph The Joint Commission released to help healthcare organizations gain traction on the fight against healthcare-associated infections.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 8
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-minute rule" from...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 8
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-minute rule" from...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 8
In 2011, AHAP reported that accreditation professionals and survey coordinators saw a marginal uptick in salaries. After a dismal 2010, 6% fewer professionals received no increase between 2010 and 2011. How did accreditation professionals fare leading into 2012?
It was a simple mistake she's still ashamed she made, but luckily when Elizabeth Butler, BA, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Massachusetts, took the stitches out of the wrong woman, the patient was not severely injured. Although Butler has followed up with the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 8
In 1985 I was working in the corporate public relations office for a Fortune 100 company. It was an environment right out of the Dilbert comic strip-except that Dilbert had not been invented yet, so it wasn't all that funny. After a year, a grizzled veteran of several corporate tours pulled me...
