Clarification: 1135 waivers, temporary suspension of rules during a disaster

January 14, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 2
Accreditation, CMS, Emergency Management, Joint Commission

Joint Commission–accredited hospitals and CAHs must have a process for requesting an 1135 waiver from CMSRead More »

Guest column: Review new NPSG for critical access hospitals

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

This article reviews the importance of NPSG.15.01.01, element of performance (EP) 1, which has two separate sections with a very important...Read More »

Suicide NPSG now applies to critical access hospitals

January 7, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 2
Accreditation, Behavioral health, 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 »

Joint Commission Portal Addresses Nurse Burnout

January 7, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 2
Burnout, Joint Commission, Quality Improvement

It’s not a new problem. According to a 2016 study from the...Read More »

Will you create TJC’s next Emergency Preparedness poster?

December 17, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 53
Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Joint Commission

Selected posters will be exhibited at the Emergency Management Standards Base Camp on April 21, and at the...Read More »

Fire safety may trump ligature risk, but surveyors likely will want both

December 16, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Environment and Facilities, Joint Commission, Life Safety, Suicide Prevention

The Joint Commission’s (TJC) newest engineering director, Herman A. McKenzie, MBA, CHSP, told hospital leadership that life...Read More »

TJC to focus on how hospitals prevent obstetric hemorrhage, treat severe hypertension

December 16, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Joint Commission, Maternity care, Patient Safety

Obstetric hemorrhage and severe hypertension are the two focus areas of the requirements that will come online in July 2020Read More »

Revisiting The Joint Commission’s drug diversion advice, resources amid growing opioid epidemic

December 16, 2019
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 21 Issue 1
Joint Commission, Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management

10% of healthcare workers in the U.S. are abusing drugs of some sort.Read More »

Suicide prevention NPSG now applies to Critical Access Hospitals

December 10, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 52
Joint Commission, Suicide Prevention

 The accreditor noted concerns about the very high rate of suicides in rural communities that critical access hospitals serve.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 »

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