Review patient falls, especially those involving infants, as surveys resume

March 26, 2021
Accreditation Insider - Volume 15 Issue 13
Joint Commission, Patient Safety, Sentinel Event Alerts

The Joint Commission releases its 2020 sentinel event report: patient falls, unintentional retention of foreign objects, suicides, delays in...Read More »

Sentinel events for 2020 pandemic year drop slightly

August 18, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 34
Accreditation, Joint Commission, Sentinel Event Alerts

The number of sentinel events reviewed by The Joint Commission (TJC) in the first half of this pandemic-dominated year are well under the pace for...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 »

New Sentinel Event categories focus on Post-Discharge Suicides

August 20, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 36
Accreditation, Joint Commission, Sentinel Event Alerts, Suicide Prevention

While suicide overall often has been in the top sentinel events, this breakdown includes two categories that split suicide events into those...Read More »

Bringing universal suicide screening to your hospital

July 25, 2017
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 18 Issue 5
National Patient Safety Goals, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement, Sentinel Event Alerts, Suicide Prevention

With suicide rates high and getting higher, hospitals and clinics need to revamp how they work with suicidal patients. The first step is...Read More »

You’ve got harm:

July 14, 2017
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 18 Issue 6
Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Sentinel Event Alerts

A look at the Automated All Cause Harm trigger system

The prevention of avoidable harms has been a...Read More »

Right dose, right drug: WHO challenges hospitals to cut med errors in half

July 14, 2017
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 18 Issue 6
Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management, National Patient Safety Goals, Sentinel Event Alerts

At the end of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its third global safety initiative, the Global Patient Safety Challenge on...Read More »

New Sentinel Event Alert focuses on leadership's role in culture of safety

May 1, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 5
Joint Commission, National Patient Safety Goals, Sentinel Event Alerts

The Joint Commission in March unveiled Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) 57, which stresses the role of leadership in developing and sustaining a culture...Read More »

No changes in most common Sentinel Events for 2016

September 1, 2016
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27 Issue 9
Sentinel Event Alerts

The Joint Commission released its sentinel event statistics for the first half of 2016 in the August edition of Perspectives. The...Read More »

Sentinel Event Alert highlights patient suicide risk

April 1, 2016
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27 Issue 4
Sentinel Event Alerts

How do you help patients who want to harm themselves?

The Joint Commission addressed this question in February with...Read More »

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