Quality & Errors

A full edition of Briefings on Accreditation & Quality, a  HCPro newsletter on healthcare regulations and quality. Contains articles on Immediate Jeopardy, Life Safety Code clarifications, and a Accreditation 101 Q&A.

When visiting a hospital, surveyors use this worksheet to confirm an organization’s compliance with the QAPI CoPs. Use it to test your facility before surveyors arrive.

An article on how to take another facility’s innovation or quality improvement project and making it work in your facility.

A fill-in-the-blank contract listing the responsibilities and expectations of those working on a quality improvement program.

Project management tool to help the accreditation coordinator monitor compliance activities.

A checklist to see if staff are using the checklists you give them

Project management tool to help the accreditation coordinator monitor compliance activities.

A document for the scribe to use on survey day to document surveyor interactions, locations/departments surveyed, findings, documents requested and other pertinent information to your organization.

A checklist of risk factors that could cause a patient fall from the CDC