The Joint Commission (TJC) will no longer use the term “licensed independent practitioner” in its hospital and critical access hospital standards. Starting February 19, 2023, the term “licensed practitioner” will be used.
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 12
Workplace security. Life safety compliance. HIPAA privacy and security. They’re all intertwined with a common goal: safety for healthcare employees and patients.
With that, we’re providing some HIPAA compliance tips, data, and information from regulators as we work toward a new year.
The Joint Commission (TJC) has several updated antibiotic stewardship elements of performance (EP) that will take effect on January 1, 2023. These EPs include requirements to have an antibiotic stewardship committee, someone to head the committee that then oversees selection of evidence-based...
Recommended steps to prevent workplace violence in hospitals include ensuring workers receive adequate training, having sufficient staffing levels, providing ongoing assessment of patients and residents for aggressive behavior and indicators, and appropriately adapting patients’ or residents’...
In the last few months, surveyors have been repeatedly tagging the failure to properly clean glucometers, and the use of common household items as surgical instruments. Both of these citations could put hospitals at risk of losing accreditation.
Medical staffs have various documents that address how they self-govern themselves. All medical staffs are required to have medical staff bylaws. Frequently, the medical staff may also have rules and regulations, policies and procedures, or both. What is the difference between all these...
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Download The Joint Commission’s (TJC) document review checklist and ensure you have all the documents available for surveyors before they leave the premises. You may not get another chance.
