CMS has proposed to revise the survey, certification, and enforcement procedures related to CMS oversight of national accreditation organizations (The Joint Commission, DNV Healthcare, and the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program or HFAP). These revisions would implement certain...
True or False: The plan of care should be considered a living document that needs to be continually reviewed and revised as the patients’ care needs change.
The Joint Commission has released the latest of its ongoing “Speak Up ™” campaign, this time intended to provide advice on identifying the warning signs of depression and getting the most out of care and treatment for depression. Click the link above for more information.
Each fiscal year, CMS releases a financial report, and included in this tome-like document is an interesting bit of information for hospitals that use accrediting organizations (AO)-CMS provides a side-by-side comparison of what each organization does and how they stack up to each other in terms...
A transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure replaces a patient's diseased aortic valve through a delivery device introduced in the groin. The procedure is often used for patients too sick or weak for traditional open-heart surgery. However, TAVR is fairly new and...
There is a whole field of medicine related to keeping patients safe in hospitals, and many of these professionals' daily jobs involve making sure patients are helped, not harmed, while receiving hospital care.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 6
In the pages of BOJ, we often explore the results of Joint Commission surveys, looking at RFIs, identifying specific target standards, and more. But discussion of this information is often tempered by a nervousness that somehow talking over the survey results might be unwelcome either by the...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 6
In a memorandum published to state survey agency directors March 15, CMS resoundingly announced its support of the use of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Common Formats to improve hospital adverse event tracking so that hospitals can better meet the CMS Quality Assessment...
