Federal public health officials are urging everyone six months and older to get vaccinated against influenza in the wake of last winter’s severe flu season.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
You can expect renewed interest in your water management program. This summer, CMS sent out a new memo updating its expectations on Legionella infections. The memo, QSO 17-30-Hospitals/CAHs/NHs, was published July 6. It supersedes the former S&C 17-30-Hospitals/CAHs/NHs, issued in June 2017...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
Despite there being a number of methods to correctly identify patients, wrong-patient procedures still occur with distressing frequency. Many if not all of these errors are preventable, yet they still came in third on this year’s sentinel event list.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
In a new memo to its state survey agencies, CMS said it would use Joint Commission ligature recommendations—drawn from a task force that was convened by the commission and included several CMS suicide prevention experts—as the federal agency goes forward with clarifying and updating Interpretive...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
As infection prevention challenges evolve—such as emerging infectious organisms and resistance—healthcare organizations must focus on preventing hospital-acquired infections and ensuring better patient outcomes.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
Dialysis is one of the three main topics that have come up repeatedly at Joint Commission presentations, along with sterile compounding and pain standards. And there’s been a corresponding uptick in scoring for all of these areas in 2018.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 10
HFAP, one of the oldest accrediting organizations for U.S. hospitals, recently updated 13 of its standards to align with the expectations on ligature risk and other hazards that CMS outlined in a memo in December 2017. The standards have been approved by CMS, but will not be revised again in...
