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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Webcast: Conduct OSHA mock inspections to ensure compliance, improve safety

December 23, 2014
Environment and Facilities

An upcoming HCPro webcast will help attendees ensure safety compliance in physician offices, clinics, and other facilities.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Staff Challenge: Provision of Care

December 23, 2014
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

True or false: A postoperative patient who is receiving pain medication should be educated about his or her pain medication as well as other pain management techniques.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Report: U.S. is unprepared for future outbreaks

December 23, 2014
Infection Control

A new report found that much of the United States is not prepared for future infectious outbreaks.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

CMS announces list of facilities penalized for HACs

December 23, 2014
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

One in five hospitals are being penalized by the CMS for hospital-acquired conditions.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Staff Challenge: National Patient Safety Goals

December 16, 2014

Fill in the blanks: A hospital ________________ should be performed on a regular basis to determine prevalence of any _____________ and its _______________.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Report: Superbugs could become a worldwide crisis

December 16, 2014
Infection Control

A new British government report warns that antimicrobial-resistant infections could lead to 10 million deaths per year and cost $100 trillion by 2050.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Report: Hospital alarms are top healthcare tech hazard

December 16, 2014
Patient Safety

A new ECRI Institute report says hospital alarm errors top the list of healthcare technology hazards.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Staff Challenge: Provision of Care

December 9, 2014
Patient Safety

True or false: A postoperative patient who is receiving pain medication should be educated about his or her pain medication as well as other pain management techniques.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Dallas ER doc: Mistakes were made in Ebola case

December 9, 2014
Infection Control

The emergency room physician who initially misdiagnosed the first Ebola patient on U.S. soil now admits he didn’t get the case right.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Ohio hospital successfully reduces false alarms

December 9, 2014
Quality & Errors

A Cincinnati hospital formed a task force and substantially reduced the number of false alarms from medical devices.

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