Suicide NPSG now applies to critical access hospitals

January 7, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 2
Accreditation, Joint Commission, National Patient Safety Goals, Suicide Prevention

Critical access hospitals (CAH) accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC) will be expected to implement National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG)...Read More »

Q&A: What You Need to Know About CMS’ Antimicrobial Stewardship Rule

January 7, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 2
Accreditation, CMS, Infection Control, Medication Management

The following is a Q&A with two experts at Chicago-based Lumere, a healthcare think tank focused on helping health systems eliminate...Read More »

Inside Accreditation and Quality, January 2020

January 6, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Accreditation

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter Read More »

Review your antibiotic stewardship program against latest CoP revisions

January 2, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 2
Accreditation, CMS, Infection Control, Medication Management

Hospital antibiotic stewardship programs will become a Condition of Participation (CoP) requirement as of March 30, 2020.Read More »

CMS updates IC CoP as of March 30

January 2, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 2
Accreditation, CMS, Infection Control, Medication Management

Here is the revised wording of the hospital Condition of Participation (CoP) adding requirements for antibiotic stewardship. Read More »

CMS updates its surveyor’s manual for first time in more than a year

December 23, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 54
Accreditation, CMS

Just in time for the holidays, CMS is offering the gift of a newly revised State Operations Manual (SOM), one of the first significant overhauls...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 »

Review HFAP’s handy summary of recent CoP updates

December 3, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Accreditation, CMS, HFAP, Survey Preparation

HFAP provided a handy list of what CoPs were to change, and stated that “all regulations are effective November 29, 2019 with the exceptions of...Read More »

Look for TJC, others to update standards against newly revised CoPs

December 3, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Accreditation, CMS, HFAP, Joint Commission, Survey Preparation

Watch for information on possible changes to medical record, nursing, and patients’ rights standards from The Joint Commission (TJC), HFAP, and...Read More »

Drug Diversion by Healthcare Personnel

December 2, 2019
Webinars
Accreditation, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management, Policies and Procedures

This webinar presented by expert speaker Kimberly New, BSN, JD, will explore current trends in drug diversion by healthcare personnel and will address how facilities can develop a straightforward approach to diversion prevention, detection, and response.

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