Fire drills are required “one per shift, per quarter” in buildings designated as healthcare occupancy, for example, an inpatient care unit. What Life Safety Code® designation requires drills “once per quarter”?
A Glendale, California hospital has agreed to pay $700,000 in civil penalties to settle a lawsuit accusing the facility of dumping a homeless patient on skid row in June.
The Joint Commission has revealed proposed requirements for its Advanced Palliative Care certification program. The program is based on the 2009 National Consensus Project's Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for Quality Palliative Care.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 9
There has to be a better way of developing risk matrices. This was the theory developed by Alan J. Card, MPH, CPH, CPHQ, PhD, president and CEO of Evidence-Based Health Solutions, LLC, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge Engineering Design Centre while working with his...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 9
It is important to realize that, while The Joint Commission gets the most press, there are several other regulatory agencies that have an impact on hospitals. For many survey coordinators, ongoing readiness includes much more than ensuring readiness for The Joint Commission.