The Joint Commission this month launched a digital resource center aimed at reducing workplace violence in healthcare settings. The Workplace Violence Prevention Resources site was created in response to the high levels of verbal, written, and physical abuse leveled against patients and...
Hospital associations, Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO), and health system organizations now have a goal of reducing current overall levels of patient harm and 30-day readmissions by 20% and 12% respectively over the next three years.
There are two words hospital officials do not want to hear during a Joint Commission survey: "immediate threat."
Yet that was the harsh reality facing officials several months ago at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, a healthcare facility that has been widely...
There was once a time when physicians played an authoritarian role. It was thought that the best medical outcomes were achieved when patients were left almost entirely in the dark, submitting to the medical expertise of the doctor.
Today's healthcare culture...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 10
The Joint Commission's new standards for residential and outpatient eating disorder programs went into effect on July 1. The standards expand and add more specific guidelines on the care of eating disorder patients. It's important to note that these standards only appear in the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 10
In August, CMS announced a few changes to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), changing how pneumonia readmissions are calculated and making excessive coronary artery bypass grafts readmission punishable. These seemingly small changes are expected to save CMS $538...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 10
High reliability is a new term for an old concept: providing the highest quality products or services consistently and uniformly to all customers. There has been a host of tools, guidelines, initiatives, and programs focused on high reliability in nearly every industry....
