As part of the organization’s ongoing process to comply with CMS Conditions of Participation (CoP), The Joint Commission announced this week revisions and additions to the elements of performance (EP) relating to psychiatric hospital requirements. These new and revised EPs, which will go...
The Joint Commission continues to request comments on its proposed National Patient Safety Goals for 2012 intended to address ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and catheter-associated tract infections (CAUTI) for its hospital and long-term care organization programs
Sometimes it takes a spark to bring about a large, important change in an organization. For St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estate, IL, changing to an improved electronic policy and procedure program started with a look at a communication breakdown.
Medication errors, patient identification errors, and surgical errors are some of the unfortunate events that take place all too frequently in healthcare. In the constant battle to prevent these adverse events, one word keeps cropping up: checklists.
