In this guest column, Heather Forbes, clinical education program coordinator for Maine Medical Partners, describes her first several months as an accreditation and regulatory coordinator. This is an excerpt from an article in the monthly training resource Briefings on Accreditation and...
Work-life balance is a foreign term to most people in healthcare. Our industry is very good at taking care of other people, but it's not so great at taking care of its own. Part of the driving force behind this mismatch is the constant drive to always take care of those in need, without...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 11
With an increasing number of regulations, National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG), Sentinel Event Alerts, and changes in procedure, medical staff may feel like they're stuck in an endless cycle of creating and approving new policies, including policies that they may not really need to approve...
As more consumer websites get into the business of rating physicians, hospitals are jumping on board in an effort to contribute to the online conversation