Accreditation & Survey Preparation

As The Joint Commission shifted to a more integrated survey, many hospitals moved away from the chapter leader approach.Read More »

For the last several years, The Joint Commission's semiannual list of the most-cited standards has read like a scene from Groundhog Day....Read More »

Editor's note: Patrick Pianezza, MHA, currently works for VEP Healthcare as manager of patient experience,...Read More »

As The Joint Commission shifted to a more integrated survey, many hospitals moved away from the chapter leader approach.Read More »

The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association plan to launch a new disease-specific care advanced...Read More »

The Joint Commission and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering last week rolled out a new website to offer online resources and tools to...Read More »

A new CMS proposal hopes to reduce end-of-life medical costs by paying healthcare providers to discuss end-of-life choices with patients.Read More »

The Joint Commission released its list of top-cited standards for all of 2014 in April. Not surprisingly, the same standards around facilities...Read More »