As accreditation and quality leaders look toward a strong and sustainable 2026, the pressure points are operational. The challenge now is how deliberately leaders respond to them.
The Joint Commission’s (TJC) Accreditation 360 initiative rolled out in mid-2025, restructuring how standards are written, organized, referenced, and ultimately surveyed. The initiative shifts significant detail into the newly expanded Survey Process Guide (SPG) documents and creates an entirely...
Hospital surveyors are no longer satisfied with documentation that shows issues retrospectively. They want to see that organizations can identify safety risks as they emerge, respond within the same shift, and maintain reliability even during operational surges.
At Henry Ford Health, quality improvement is celebrated. Each fall, hundreds of teams gather for an event that has been engrained into the system’s culture: the Quality Expo.
Hospitals across the country are spending record amounts on healthcare while watching quality erode, according to Peter Kowey, MD. Like many physicians, he is right in the thick of this.
Hospitals are under increasing scrutiny to keep patients safe from suicide, self-harm, and violent behavior—and CMS has just made its expectations for patient safety even clearer.
Hospitals participating in value-based purchasing and accountable care programs face a new level of complexity in how patients are attributed—and reattributed—over time. These shifts can alter quality scores, disrupt performance tracking, and even jeopardize reimbursement or survey readiness.
Hospitals navigating accreditation and reimbursement challenges often overlook two seemingly unrelated issues: ISO 9001 certification and durable medical equipment (DME) product compliance.
