About 75% of workplace assaults occur in the healthcare and social service sector each year, and healthcare workers are four times more likely than others to take time off because of violence-related injuries. The Joint Commission is the latest healthcare heavy-hitter to call for better...
In this webinar, performance improvement expert Kenneth R. Rohde provides practical techniques and advice to help participants analyze their occurrence reporting process, use data to learn why errors occur, and make improvements that will strengthen patient care and reduce adverse events.
In an incident eerily reminiscent of one that occurred five years ago, a woman was found dead last week in a stairway of the power plant building on the property of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The Los Angeles Times reported that a hospital staff member discovered the body at about...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 6
The Joint Commission recently released its final sentinel event statistics for 2017. The same medical miscues as last year top the list; however, it seems encouraging that the total number of reported sentinel events declined for a second consecutive year while the proportion of self-reported...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 6
Kettering Health Network (KHN) is a non-profit network of eight hospitals, 10 emergency centers, and over 120 outpatient facilities in southwest Ohio. In 2016, the network reported more than 1 million outpatient visits, nearly 62,000 patient discharges, and about 315,000 emergency visits. KHN...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 6
Almost two-thirds of the hospitals surveyed in 2017 were found noncompliant in at least one—and possibly many more—of the top 10 most challenging standards for hospitals.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 6
Patients continue to be stitched closed with surgical sponges, gloves, needles, electrodes, scalpels, wires, tweezers, forceps, scopes, masks, tubes, and scissors left inside them. To combat the problem, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) released updates to its Guideline...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 6
The good news is that patient falls are largely preventable. Doing so can save patients undue pain and save a hospital around $1 million a year. The bad news: There are still between 700,000 and 1 million patient falls each year. Of that number, 30%–35% of falls lead to injuries such as internal...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 6
With the renewed focus on ligature and self-harm, facilities need to undergo a complete reassessment of the physical environment where patients with behavioral or mental health problems are cared for. That goes especially for emergency departments. Annually, 460,000 emergency department visits...
