The failure of workers to comply with PPE guidance is a perennial issue in healthcare. While PPE protects workers from infection and harm, it also plays a key role in patient safety: It keeps employees from accidentally exposing patients to harmful chemicals and bacteria from around the facility...
The Joint Commission surveyors will now check to see if hospitals are compliant with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ban on powdered medical gloves.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 2
When it comes to healthcare quality improvement, electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) are the way of the future. Or at least that’s what many are betting on. This year, Joint Commission-accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals will be required to choose six out 13 possible eCQMs...
Editor’s note: A 2016 study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that for every hour physicians spend with patients, they spend two hours interfacing with their electronic health records (EHR). A different study found that 14% of physicians have experienced a potential...
Today, the CAHPS survey often doesn’t capture the entire picture when it comes to customer satisfaction. To meaningfully improve the patient experience, an organizationwide, proactive approach to patient-centered care is needed. Beyond...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 2
The Joint Commission announced an update of its “observer” definition in its accreditation and certification manuals. The new definition is meant to clarify the roles of surveyors and reviewer management staff during on-site surveys and reviews.
The new definition can be found under...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28, Issue 2
Last year, the American Hospital Association (AHA) sent two letters to President Trump asking him to reform CMS regulatory requirements. In the letters, AHA CEO and president Rick Pollack wrote that the balance between flexibility in patient care and regulatory burden was at a tipping point...
