Patient Safety Awareness Week is coming up and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) is extending its toolkits, aimed at cultural competency and reducing readmission rates, to all healthcare organizations. In years past, the NPSF–which is the founding sponsor of Patient Safety...
Two former language-expert hospital administrators in conjunction with Language Line Services have released a new report called “The New Joint Commission Standards for Patient-Centered Care,” that finds hospitals are falling short of The Joint Commission’s language access requirements for...
True or false: CMS exempts hospitals that use The Joint Commission for deemed status from having to report a patient death that occurs while the patient is in restaint and seclusi
Member Anne Radtke, accreditation manager with the Ministry St. Michael’s Hospital/Ministry Medical Group sent in this fun survey preparation suggestion:
