The Joint Commission (TJC) this week announced revisions to its suicide prevention National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) to improve quality and safety of care for patients treated for behavioral health conditions and who are identified as high-risk for suicide.
Expect CMS to continue pressuring The Joint Commission (TJC) and other accrediting organizations (AO) to find more of the serious life safety, environment of care, and infection control issues the federal agency says they are still missing during surveys.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 12
The Joint Commission (TJC) is revising five elements of performance (EP) following a CMS review of TJC’s EP Review Project for its Leadership (LD) chapter. The revisions go into effect starting January 1, and deal with the deeming in hospitals and critical access hospitals to better align with...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 12
There was a far-ranging medication management discussion held at The Joint Commission’s 2019 Executive Briefings this September. Led by Robert Campbell, PharmD, a pharmacist with The Joint Commission’s Standards Interpretation Group, the panel covered everything from medication...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 12
On October 10, Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida, forcing at least two hospitals to evacuate all of their patients after their buildings sustained heavy damage. On the same day, The Joint Commission (TJC) published a new Emergency Management Health Care Environment Checklist on its...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 12
CMS wants to put a stronger spotlight on times when TJC and other AOs fail to find patient safety problems later discovered by CMS survey teams conducting performance checks referred to as validation surveys.
To do so, CMS has created a website that provides a graphic about the disparity...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 12
A cohort of about 150 physician groups sent a letter both commending and criticizing the Trump administration's planned changes to the 2019 physician fee schedule.
With a span of providers reaching almost half the country, the Dignity Health system kicked off its Human Trafficking Response (HTR) Program in 2014 with the intent of identifying and helping trafficking victims. Within a year, it identified at least 31 people with high or moderate indicators...
