CMS announced it is combining the interpretive guidelines that its surveyors use for psychiatric hospitals into the main Appendix A for hospitals, eliminating the need for double survey visits.
CMS is revising its State Operations Manual (SOM) for hospitals in one of the first significant overhauls in more than a year. But be aware that the changes are not fully online yet and more revisions are to come.
While I have a sneaking suspicion that this Top 10 list doesn’t change a whole lot from year to year (other than position in the hierarchy), I thought it would be of...
In December, The Joint Commission (TJC) released Quick Safety Issue 52: Advancing Safety With Closed-Loop Communication of Test Results. Closed-loop communication means that every test result is sent, received, and addressed in a timely manner, and the patient is notified of...
The Joint Commission (TJC) is revising its medication management standards, requiring clear and accurate medication orders—catching up to what surveyors have been scoring for some time now.
Cardinal Health this week said it has launched "two voluntary field actions" for Cardinal Health Presource® Procedure Packs containing gowns that were part of its recent recall of AAMI Level 3 surgical gowns.
As the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak moves into its third week, infectious disease experts believe it’s well on its way to becoming a pandemic. Extensive travel restrictions and quarantines have been put in place, but the coronavirus continues to spread quickly and has already...
As our friends from Chicago appear to be embarking in earnest on their charge to be as unpredictable as possible (I know of one instance in which a triennial survey “...
