Wonder how your salary holds up to others in your field? Did you get a raise? Did other people get a bonus but not you? How many hats do your colleagues wear?
Take our “2019 Accreditation Professional Salary Survey” and we’ll compile the results for you and your colleagues around the...
With less than seven days to go before the February 19 public comment deadline, so far only The Joint Commission (TJC) and the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) are among the hospital accrediting organizations (AO) to formally respond to CMS’ concerns about conflict of interest...
Hospital-acquired conditions dropped 13% from 2014 to 2017; from 99 per 1,000 acute care discharges to 86 per 1,000, according to newly released federal data. That reduction translates into 910,000 fewer HACs, including adverse drug events and healthcare-associated infections, which helped...
The Joint Commission (TJC) announced revisions to its anticoagulant therapy National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) December 7. NPSG 03.05.01 has eight new or revised elements of performance (EP).
All the changes are listed in R3 Report 19 and will take effect July 1, 2019.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 30, Issue 2
Ever had questions about whether it was good or appropriate to pay your accrediting organization (AO) for consulting services on how to comply with the same standards they set that allows you to stay in business? CMS is interested in that question as well.
