In NQF’s 2017 guidance to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the organization recommended eliminating around 51 out of 240 of all federal quality metrics used to determine payment in seven federal healthcare programs. This is meant to make the requirements for providers more...
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that patients are less likely to die if they are treated on the same day as a surprise Joint Commission survey. During a survey week, patients had a 1.5% better chance of survival within 30 days of admissions...
The ECRI Institute has published its 2017 list of top patient safety hazards and concerns. The Institute publishes the list to highlight and educate healthcare workers on various dangers affecting patients. The list includes guidance on how to effectively respond to these concerns, along with...
HCPro, HealthLeaders Media, and DecisionHealth merge to form the H3.Group
Together as the H3.Group, our powerful brands combine three pillars of thought leadership, expertise, and application to provide critical insight, analysis, tools and training to healthcare organizations nationwide...
The Joint Commission announced that as of March 1, its surveyors will place special focus on suicide, self-harm, and ligature observations in psychiatric hospitals and units. Now, surveyors will document any and all observations of ligature or self-harm risks in the environment during the survey...
Editor’s note: Janet Spiegel, MS, is a management consultant who has worked with several payer and provider organizations. She is currently a Lean senior strategic performance advisor at Martin’s Point Health Care in Portland, Maine.
Compliance with the Conditions of Participation (CoP) is required to meet Medicare and Medicaid hospital regulations. CMS makes updates to the CoPs on its website, but few have the time to sort through the plethora of information and identify where the updated information is located.
In addition to other changes, The Joint Commission has eliminated its post-survey category of “Contingent Accreditation.” Now organizations can only receive one of four decisions: Accredited, Accredited with Follow-up Survey, Preliminary Denial of Accreditation, or Denial of Accreditation.
Editor’s note: The following is article first appeared in the April 2016 edition of PSQH, and was written by members of the National Patient Safety Foundation. Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS is chief operating officer and senior vice president of programs, Caitlin Y. Lorincz, MS, MA is senior...
