Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Joint Commission, which oversees accreditation of hospitals and other healthcare facilities, issued new and revised workplace violence ...Read More »

Second-largest AO cuts back on some onsite visits as COVID-19 patient surge continues.Read More »

The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) is urging CMS to expand its hospital Conditions of Participation, or at least the interpretive...Read More »

What do you think about the proposed changes to The Joint Commission's antimicrobial stewardship requirements? They want to know.Read More »

If you felt aggravated by OSHA’s rush to implement an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to...Read More »

CMS is adding a maternal morbidity quality measure as well as a reporting requirement on COVID-19 vaccination rates among hospital and long-term...Read More »

The Joint Commission (TJC) is hiring almost twice as many new surveyors than usual this year to deal with a backlog of triennial surveys delayed...Read More »