Every year, CMS releases an annual financial report. Within that report, the agency provides a review of Medicare's oversight of accrediting organizations. It has become a Briefings on The Joint Commissiontradition to take a look at what CMS finds, as well as how The Joint...
This tool, a patient safety expectations badge, is part of an overall contract between leadership and staff members to help build a better culture of safety in their organization.
"The first time we ever used it was with an anesthesia group in Atlanta," says Steve...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 4
Editor's note: Patrick Pianezza, MHA, currently works for VEP Healthcare as the manager of patient experience, overseeing patient experience and special projects across VEP's vast networks of emergency departments. He has worked with the Studer Group and Johns Hopkins...
