After much anticipation from patient safety experts, on October 20, The Joint Commission released its new Patient Safety Systems chapter, which will be included in the 2015 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals. As The Joint Commission previously indicated, the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 1
In a memo dated October 31, 2014, the CMS Center for Clinical Standard and Quality/Survey and Certification Group targeted patient safety in a number of announcements.
Specifically, the memo addresses the 2015 Hospital Patient Safety Initiative (PSI). First, the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 1
As a new year dawns, accreditation professionals look ahead at where the problematic and challenging areas will be for the coming 12 months. A good starting point for many is the annual list of most-cited standards from The Joint Commission. This year, as in years past, the top 10...
As a new year dawns, accreditation professionals look ahead at where the problematic and challenging areas will be for the coming 12 months. A good starting point for many is the annual list of most-cited standards from The Joint Commission. This year, as in years past, the top 10...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 1
The Accreditation Association for Hospitals/Health Systems (AAHHS) will now offer an accreditation program for critical access hospitals and rural hospitals with less than 200 beds.
Few health emergencies have the ability to ignite such widespread panic as a potential epidemic. In the previous decade, hospitals have dealt with public health scares surrounding SARS, bird flu, and H1N1, but in 2014, Ebola has moved front and center in the U.S., a country that previously...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 1
This year has been full of interesting healthcare topics worthy of a year-end wrap-up. We start our journey with the idea of emergency medical services (EMS) helping with readmissions and end with one of the world's scariest viruses to date.
