More and more, accrediting and regulatory bodies are focusing on behavioral health and how it impacts overall patient care, as are many experts in the field of quality improvement. The reasons behind this are clear: For many years, the patient's behavioral and physical health have been...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 5
In public discussion, workplace violence often receives top billing as a hospital situation that is preventable?or at least should be preventable. Regulatory bodies and accreditation agencies treat it similarly, having made workplace violence a (justifiable) focus in recent years. But...
In public discussion, workplace violence often receives top billing as a hospital situation that is preventable?or at least should be preventable. Regulatory bodies and accreditation agencies treat it similarly, having made workplace violence a (justifiable) focus in recent years. But...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 5
Workforce analytics can be considered the future of human resources. It is the new way of making people-related business decisions. Just as healthcare has focused more strenuously on evidence-based care to guide clinical decision-making and algorithms, now HR functions can do the same.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 5
It feels as if not a day goes by without talking about the need for active shooter planning in public spaces, including hospitals. This plays into the ongoing need for hospitals to address Emergency Management, Environment of Care, and other safety-related standards and regulations.
Fifteen years after the Institute of Medicine's landmark report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) convened quality care experts to discuss patient safety priorities for the next 15 years.
OSHA’s new workplace violence guidelines for healthcare call for increased facility security measures and recommend that facilities develop workplace violence prevention programs.
The CMS says more than 400,000 providers accepted pay cuts instead of participate in the federal physician-quality reporting system and electronic prescribing incentive programs.
The Joint Commission clarified that accredited organizations providing diagnostic imaging services have until July 1, 2016 to comply with the accreditor’s requirement for an annual performance evaluation of imaging equipment.
