To reduce patient harm, BJC HealthCare focused on pressure ulcers, adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, falls, and venous thromboembolisms.
Banning all food and drink at nurse or other workstations is sometimes seen as an all-or-nothing issue—one that can pit staff against supervisors, and surveyors against compliance officers who see both sides of the problem.
Expect CMS to continue its crackdown on The Joint Commission (TJC), HFAP, and other accrediting organizations (AO) for fire safety and physical environment oversight.
Infection control dominated the day’s presentations, which also looked at expectations for sterile compounding, Legionella control, using personal protective equipment, medication management, lowering maternal death rates, and, of course, ligature risk and suicide prevention.
