Keeping a hospital compliant and survey ready is a difficult, endless, and often frustrating task. One of the difficulties can be impressing the importance of accreditation to those who aren't immersed in it on a daily basis. As such, it can help to remember what the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 9
The Joint Commission released its sentinel event statistics for the first half of 2016 in the August edition of Perspectives. The report relies on self-reported data and only shows a small portion of the never events that occur each year. The report, based on 349 reported events...
The Hospitals & Health Network recently published an article on the issue of polypharmacy, which occurs when a patient is given redundant or unneeded medications.
In 2015 alone, all 392 Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) participants and 12 Pioneer ACO Model participants saved a combined $466 million while improving care quality.
We’re proud to release the newest feature of the Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare website, the PSQH Forum. The forum is for you, the patient safety professional, to voice your opinions, share tools and policies, and receive answers to industry-related...
In 2015 hospitals were given the option of submitting their eCQM data to meet ORYX requirements. The Joint Commission has analyzed and released the data sent by the 34 hospitals that participated.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published an online toolkit this May that teaches how to talk with patients when a medical error occurs.
The Joint Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are working on a new initiative to improve infection control in ambulatory care settings.
