Some hospital employees are challenging facility mandated flu vaccinations, highlighted by a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts Nurses Association against Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Hospitals are feeling the heat to reduce readmissions, with 2,610 receiving fines from Medicare for having too many patients return within 30 days for more treatment.
Does your organization have a formalized process for debriefing after an adverse event? And if so, is it working? For many organizations, reporting of adverse events can be problematic, with challenges ranging from time management and inefficient processes to the age-old challenge of shame?...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some interesting, if not entirely unexpected news: facilities and physical environment issues continue...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
In any organization's quality department there lives a nefarious, ever-present beast. It's usually in paper form and comprises a list of seemingly innocuous phrases or sentences and to the far right is the "checkbox." It's easy to become disdainful of checklists, but the reality is they play...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
In what could be called one of the better Sentinel Event Alerts (SEA) released in recent years, The Joint Commission has taken aim at tubing misconnections in its August 20 release of "Managing risk during transition to new ISO tubing connector standards."
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 10
In this era of mergers, acquisitions, and the building of replacement hospital facilities, many survey coordinators are faced with maintaining an overall inventory of licenses, accreditations, and certifications. This list is not only a regulatory requirement but is an important element of...
