In a recent announcement, The Joint Commission has urged hospitals and other accredited organizations to review their sterilization and high-level disinfection (HLD) processes in detail.
The latest AHAP working group call on tracers was a great success! Thank you to all who joined in and participated on the call, and a special thank you to advisory board members Jodi Eisenberg and Missi Halvorsen for leading the discussion. The recording is now available on the website and...
CMS recently announced the approval of deeming authority for the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF), meaning the organization is now a national accreditation program for providers of outpatient physical therapy and speech-language...
The Joint Commission released a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on May 17. The new goal, NPSG.07.06.01, addresses the need to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI). It's similar to previous NPSGs on infection control.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) released a list of approved serious reportable events (SRE) in June. The list includes 25 updated events and four new events.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 8
Editor's note: The following article was written by Christine Levy, RD, MBA, MHA, FACHE, CSHA, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, who has served as the Joint Commission sustainment officer for a 78-bed hospital for the past three and a half years. Previously, she...
Many hospitals have implemented electronic medical records (EMR) or are currently doing so, and the federal government provides incentives for using this technology in a meaningful way. EMRs are a big step up, after all: Instead of a paper chart that needs to be tracked down,...
The following is an excerpt from Occurrence Reporting: Building a Robust Problem Identification and Resolution Process, by Kenneth R. Rohde, senior consultant for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, MA. Visit...
