The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has announced it will release a tool specifically targeting one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges–hand hygiene–in September.
Thank you to all members who participated in our benchmark survey on restraints use. Results will be available on the AHAP website later this week, at www.accreditationprofessional.org.
The Joint Commission announced this week its most challenging requirements list for the first half of 2010. The list for hospitals is dominated, as it has in the past, with standards dealing with fire safety requirements, though the most challenging requirement deals with medical records–another...
The Joint Commission seeks feedback on revisions to the 2010 version of Universal Protocol (Hospital, Critical Access Hospital, Ambulatory Care, and Office-based Surgery programs).
One of the AHAP members asked us to circulate an opening at their facility for a Joint Commission survey coordinator in Houston. Check out more information here.
