The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a much-anticipated final rule intended to ease the burden of cumbersome credentialing and privileging requirements for the use of telemedicine providers. This final rule revises the existing Conditions of Participation (CoP)...
The 2011 Salary Survey Report has been uploaded and is available for viewing on the AHAP website. You can find it under the Benchmarking Surveys tab, or just click here.
According to the latest edition of the Archive of Surgery, a basic bedside technique of gently probing a surgical incision to clean the area can result in significantly reduced rates of infection,...
The recording of last week’s working group call on Environment of Care has been uploaded and is available for listening on the AHAP website. You can find it under the Working Group Calls tab, or just click here.
You can't read anything about patient safety and quality or health reform without running into the topic of healthcare-associated infections (HAI). The issue tops a list of priorities for many health-related government institutions (e.g., Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, CMS),...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 5
The best of hospital leadership take an active interest and role in safety and quality at their facility, an attitude that can help quality improvement departments, accreditation coordinators, and others who live and breathe process improvement institute the changes they need to keep...
Sometimes a patient's declining condition is obvious. But in a busy hospital with patients who are sometimes very ill, recognizing problems isn't so easy. Nurses often have lots of patients and piles of paperwork.
A team approach to reducing infections resulted in the neonatal ICU (NICU) of Children's Hospital at Providence in Anchorage, AK, receiving the 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for innovation and patient safety and quality at the local level. The award is...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 5
Editor's note: Below is the conclusion of our article from the April edition of BOJ on the recent survey experience of Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove, IL, which experienced five Disease-Specific Certification programs.