Accreditation 101: A Toolkit for Accreditation Professionals provides a road map to the new specialist’s education and orientation, with plenty of guidance along the way. Written in clear, accessible terms, Accreditation 101 comes with downloadable tools, mock tracers, timely updates,...
Expect CMS surveyors to be referring to recommendations set out by The Joint Commission last fall when looking for ligature risk and other environmental hazards in the push to make hospitals and psychiatric units safer for patients at-risk of self-harm.
Last October, the hospital was placed under immediate jeopardy following the death of a patient with dementia. After being admitted from a nursing home, the patient was given 10 times the maximum daily dose of a calcium channel blocker, causing a fatal overdose. DeKalb Medical officers self-...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 8
Rosemary Grant, BSN, RN, CPHQ, is the sepsis coordinator at Harborview. She says her facility chose to focus on sepsis detection because the condition is “prevalent, expensive, and deadly.”
“When we looked at data from our hospital and others, we saw that patients who develop sepsis in...
This March, a team of experts working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a study on antibiotic prescription habits in outpatient facilities. The study, published in the Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology journal, showed that there are seasonal trends...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 8
To keep themselves as closely aligned with CMS as possible, HFAP has updated their Acute Care Manual with a new requirement for Infection Control Standard 07.01.03—Reduce Risk of Legionella in Water Systems.
Infection preventionist Jessica Strauch shares an amusing anecdote to show how hand hygiene monitoring technology has improved the culture at Lutheran Medical Center in Colorado.
Picture one of Lutheran’s nurses standing in front of her kitchen sink at home. Dinner is hot...
A new survey found that 36% of medical resonance imaging (MRI) providers do not comply with The Joint Commission’s (TJC) standards for diagnostic imaging services, which were released in 2015.
