Cleveland Clinic has robust coaching programs for the Cleveland-based health system’s physicians.
Coaching programs can help health systems address physician wellbeing and retention. The coaching programs at Cleveland Clinic are credited with helping the health system avoid $84 million in...
The Board of Commissioners at The Joint Commission (TJC) has appointed Jonathan B. Perlin. MD, as the accrediting organization’s next president and CEO, effective March 1, 2022.
Perlin currently is the president and clinical operations and chief medical officer at HCA...
While it is always my intent to be amazingly timely in posting things, sometimes items that I’ve earmarked for sharing end up languishing in my draft emails folder. And, as I was...
Clinical laboratories surveyed under HFAP standards in 2020 showed improvements over the top deficiencies identified in earlier years, in a time when “clinical laboratories in all settings managed high testing volumes, demand for rapid turnaround times, and supply chain constraints related to...
If COVID-19 cases are rising in your area again and you’re seeking a fresh look at your pandemic response plan, download the free patient surge preparedness checklist by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
IHI also has just released a set of recommendations titled “ ‘...
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted workforce shortages at health systems and hospitals across the country. On Sept. 1, the American Nurses Association ...
Check your emergency rooms, outpatient clinics and anywhere else where pandemic-related equipment shortages have forced your facility to go outside normal supply lines for replacement medical devices. You could be saving yourself an immediate threat to health and safety (ITHS) citing by The...
Interesting read in the October 2021 Perspectives relative to some Life Safety chapter considerations that have earned a place in the Consistent Interpretation column. The thing...
In what I would term an interesting move (I don’t know that I would go so far as to call it unprecedented, but it might well could be), our friends in Chicago are ...
