Editor's note: Sharon Chaput, RN, CSHA, is the director of regulatory and quality management at Brattleboro (Vt.) Retreat and advisory board member for both Briefings on The Joint Commission and the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals.
A new report released Feb. 19 recognizes Dayton; Ohio, Phoenix; Cincinnati; and Milwaukee, among others, as the nation’s top hospitals and cities for hospital care based on in-hospital mortality rates.
Motivated by improved efficiencies and monetary incentives, healthcare is migrating to electronic health records. While this solves the issue of physicians' sloppy handwriting on paper, and creates a host of opportunities for the digitized data, it is creating a new set of challenges.
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Here is a story that will cause more than one hospital to take a look at its own policies and procedures: Earlier this week an 11-year-old cancer survivor and patient of Doernbecher Children’s Hospital ran from her hospital room with the front of her tee-shirt on fire. The child, who will need...
The practitioner with clinical responsibilities for infection control is responsible for ensuring that appropriate policies and procedures are both established and implemented across the facility. What is the third responsibility?
Last week, the National Committee of Quality Assurance (NCQA) president issued accreditation to the first six physician-hospital networks that qualify as true accountable care organizations. The National Committee of Quality Assurance evaluates accountable care organizations on the basis of...
