The following is a summary rundown of the top clinical deficiencies for acute care and critical access hospitals surveyed in 2020 by HFAP, as outlined in the accrediting organization’s 2021 HFAP Quality...
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Hospitals, clinical laboratories, and ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) accredited by HFAP showed improvements in 2020. Fewer organizations faced repeat deficiencies than in prior years, and there was a strong showing in overall emergency management. There’s always a question about whether...
Getting your patients and staff out of harm’s way is always the number one priority during an evacuation, and it might not always be practical to do a step-by-step lockdown of your facility or take all the valuables you need. But if you can do this without putting anyone needlessly at risk, you...
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) is urging CMS to expand its hospital Conditions of Participation, or at least the interpretive guidelines for the current CoPs, to improve oversight of the cybersecurity of networked medical devices. The OIG is concerned that neither surveyors from CMS...
