In July 2019, the accreditation agency released Quick Safety Issue 50: Developing Resilience to Combat Nurse Burnout, published to help healthcare facilities with the process of personal protection from burnout for nurses and other frontline staff.
A guidebook to help healthcare organizations prepare for interoperability compliance is now available from The Sequoia Project, a non-profit dedicated to solving health IT interoperability issues.
Yale New Haven Hospital has developed a two-step assessment process for all clinicians who are at least 70 years old and seeking reappointment to the medical staff.
The guidance offers a variety of technical papers, including information for clinical care, infection control and prevention, and risk communication and community engagement (RCCE).
Dig out your screening plans for MERS-CoV, Ebola, measles, or any other infectious disease and update them with the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Build off any protocols you already have for handling extra-busy days at your emergency department (ED) to create a patient surge plan that can seamlessly expand as needed during a local disaster.
CMS announced it is combining the interpretive guidelines that its surveyors use for psychiatric hospitals into the main Appendix A for hospitals, eliminating the need for double survey visits.
CMS is revising its State Operations Manual (SOM) for hospitals in one of the first significant overhauls in more than a year. But be aware that the changes are not fully online yet and more revisions are to come.
The Joint Commission (TJC) is revising its medication management standards, requiring clear and accurate medication orders—catching up to what surveyors have been scoring for some time now.
