A transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure replaces a patient's diseased aortic valve through a delivery device introduced in the groin. The procedure is often used for patients too sick or weak for traditional open-heart surgery. However, TAVR is fairly new and...
There is a whole field of medicine related to keeping patients safe in hospitals, and many of these professionals' daily jobs involve making sure patients are helped, not harmed, while receiving hospital care.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 6
Each fiscal year, CMS releases a financial report, and included in this tome-like document is an interesting bit of information for hospitals that use accrediting organizations (AO)-CMS provides a side-by-side comparison of what each organization does and how they stack up to each other in terms...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 6
In the pages of BOJ, we often explore the results of Joint Commission surveys, looking at RFIs, identifying specific target standards, and more. But discussion of this information is often tempered by a nervousness that somehow talking over the survey results might be unwelcome either by the...
There is a whole field of medicine related to keeping patients safe in hospitals, and many of these professionals' daily jobs involve making sure patients are helped, not harmed, while receiving hospital care.
In a recent article by AHAP advisor Elizabeth Geffers, she takes a look at what the regulatory agency has to say about the various accrediting organizations and the work they did last year. Elizabeth also created a number of charts comparing the agencies based on available CMS data. We...
True or False: As long as a hospital has a thorough and complete formulary, the hospital can omit having a process to obtain medications that are not on the formulary.
Join us for the 7th Annual Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) Conference on June 6-7 in Las Vegas! Previous attendees can attest – The AHAP conference provides invaluable knowledge and education on quality improvement, Environment of Care, and compliance issues you...
The 2013 AHAP conference, to be held June 6-7, 2013 at The Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, will include a poster session as part of its conference offerings. It’s an informal way for hospitals to share their accreditation- and survey-related successes with each other,...
