Anne Marie Benedicto, MPP, MPH, vice president of The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, speaks about the Center’s first-ever broad-based study on zero harm and what they’ve learned from it.
At Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, nurse leaders have taken a preventive approach to the organization’s future workforce, using a little foresight and planning to fend off a potential crisis.
California’s State Senate passed a new law this May, granting the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) the power to fine hospitals who violate the state’s existing nurse-to-patient regulations.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 30, Issue 4
In January 2009, all eyes were on the Hudson River when a plane flying out of New York’s LaGuardia Airport crash-landed in the river after striking a flock of geese. Thanks to fast acting by the pilots, all 155 passengers survived, with few major injuries. Trouble started afterwards, though,...
Innovation involves doing something differently than how it’s normally done; a new device, policy, or program. And there are plenty of new evidence-based practices, revolutionary studies, and groundbreaking toolkits promising to lift healthcare to new...