HFAP updated 13 of its ligature standards to align CMS this spring (see story below.) Since then, CMS has come out with a new ligature memo, but HFAP announced it won't be revising their standards again.
With a new flu season right around the corner, now is the time for hospitals and other healthcare facilities to consider implementing a mandatory vaccination program for seasonal influenza. Some employees may initially object, but most experts agree that flu shots are a necessity for healthcare...
Accreditation 101: A Toolkit for Accreditation Professionals provides a road map to the new specialist’s education and orientation, with plenty of guidance along the way. Written in clear, accessible terms, Accreditation 101 comes with downloadable tools, mock tracers, timely updates,...
Expect CMS surveyors to be referring to recommendations set out by The Joint Commission last fall when looking for ligature risk and other environmental hazards in the push to make hospitals and psychiatric units safer for patients at-risk of self-harm.
Last October, the hospital was placed under immediate jeopardy following the death of a patient with dementia. After being admitted from a nursing home, the patient was given 10 times the maximum daily dose of a calcium channel blocker, causing a fatal overdose. DeKalb Medical officers self-...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 8
Rosemary Grant, BSN, RN, CPHQ, is the sepsis coordinator at Harborview. She says her facility chose to focus on sepsis detection because the condition is “prevalent, expensive, and deadly.”
“When we looked at data from our hospital and others, we saw that patients who develop sepsis in...
