Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in January, healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals have been working almost nonstop, often in high-stress...Read More »
Each year, 2.5 million patients suffer from pressure ulcers and injuries, with 60,000 dying from complications. To put that into some context, in...Read More »
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 »
Always being ready for survey can be one of the greatest challenges, but there are tools. In the following excerpt from HCPro’s recently published...Read More »
Given The Joint Commission’s (TJC) more than 60-year presence in hospital accreditation, Inside Accreditation and Quality went to CMS for some...Read More »
In an announcement that The Joint Commission (TJC) has been approved for two years as a Medicare accrediting organization (AO), CMS outlines what...Read More »
The steadily climbing maternal mortality rate in the U.S. has (appropriately) attracted a great deal of media attention over the last few years....Read More »
Expect The Joint Commission (TJC) to get tougher on some areas of survey, particularly with the physical environment and off-campus facilities,...Read More »
