We are currently looking for ideas or potential speakers for our next working group call. Have a topic idea? A best practice or success story you’d like to share with the association? Have you considered leading a working group call? We’d love to hear your suggestions.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a set of ten Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the topic of Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation.
AHAP is currently looking for topic suggestions for its upcoming benchmarking survey. If there are any particular topics you’d like us to report on, please contact Matt Phillion directly at mphillion@hcpro.com.
In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee released a new set of guidelines to eliminate central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). The guidelines, titled Guidelines for the Prevention of...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a new patient safety initiative, Partnership for Patients, in April.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 6
In November 2010, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert requiring all hospitals to screen patients who do not come in with a primary mental health diagnosis and are treated in general hospitals in medical-surgical units and the emergency department (ED), in...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 6
Editor's note: This feature examines Joint Commission standards in greater detail with expert advice from BOJ advisors. This month, Elizabeth Di Giacomo-Geffers, RN, MPH, CSHA, a healthcare consultant in Trabuco Canyon, CA, and former Joint Commission surveyor, discusses healthcare and the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 6
Of all the challenges U.S. hospitals face, few are as unifying as hand hygiene-extremely important and, as many facilities struggle with compliance, extremely difficult to get right.
At Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in Burlington, NC, a reexamination of how hand hygiene...
