True or false: Adverse drug reactions, as well as medication errors, pose a serious safety risk to patients. Hospitals must have a process in place to monitor and provide care to the patient, as well as to report the error to the physician.

Every few months we like to send out a request looking for member success stories—a new policy, a successful way of addressing a top cited standard, a new quality initiative—that a member has been a part of at their organization and would like to let people know about.

First and foremost, it goes without saying that we all want to do the right thing, at the right time, for the right patient the first time, and every time thereafter, without making a mistake or causing harm, ever. And in a perfect world, that's what would always happen-we would take good care...

In May, CMS released revisions to the Medicare final rule for hospital and critical access hospital ­requirements. These revisions went into effect in relatively short order-July 16-and required updates to be made to The Joint ­Commission's own standards to ensure compliance ­between the two...