Excerpt: Building a High Reliability Organization

January 14, 2020
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 21 Issue 2
Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement

The following excerpt comes from chapter 6 of the HCPro book, Building a High Reliability...Read More »

Hospitals Might Get Penalized by CMS for Serving Disadvantaged Patients

January 14, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 3
CMS, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement

The study found that the CMS rating system does not account...Read More »

It’s time for healthcare organizations to take ownership of burnout

January 2, 2020
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 21 Issue 2
Burnout, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement

The World Health Organization has recently defined burnout as an official medical diagnosis.Read More »

IHI Pushes Safety as a Primary Business Strategy

January 2, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 1
Leadership, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement

Hospital leaders must adopt safety and quality as primary...Read More »

Creating a culture that puts an end to sexual harassment in healthcare

December 23, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 2
Healthcare Violence, Policies and Procedures

7% of physicians and 11% of nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants had experienced sexual harassment. Read More »

20 years after To Err Is Human

December 23, 2019
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 21 Issue 1
Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement

While no one would say that we’re close to that goal, a lot of progress has been made—progress that’s saved many lives.Read More »

CMS offers training on new electronic form for restraint-related deaths

December 23, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 54
CMS, Healthcare Violence, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

As of January 1, CMS eliminated the paper version of the form to report patient deaths associated with restraint or seclusion. Read More »

IHI Looks to Expand ‘Age-Friendly’ Health Systems

December 17, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 53
Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement...Read More »

How not to run out of water

December 10, 2019
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 21 Issue 1
Environment and Facilities, Life Safety, Policies and Procedures

Running out of water in an emergency is not something a hospital wants to think about. However, recent events have shown that it can and does...Read More »

Expect the next decade to focus on coping with new technology and old problems

December 10, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Accreditation, CMS, Data Tracking, Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Healthcare Violence, HFAP, Infection Control, Joint Commission, Leadership, Life Safety, Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management, National Patient Safety Goals, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement, Sentinel Event Alerts, Suicide Prevention, Survey Coordinator Training, Survey Preparation

Healthcare compliance changed quite a bit in the last decade. For one thing, fire safety moved into the current millennium with the adoption of...Read More »

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