A Glendale, California hospital has agreed to pay $700,000 in civil penalties to settle a lawsuit accusing the facility of dumping a homeless patient on skid row in June.
The Joint Commission has released its July 2014 prepublication standards referencing changes to bring the organization's standards into better alignment with CMS Conditions of Participation. Let's take a look at what has changed and how these changes may impact your organization, specifically in...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 9
When speaking to organizations, I often hear things like, "Well, we don't have the resources that the university hospital has" from community hospitals and then the university hospitals will say things like, "We aren't as nimble as those community hospitals." It's frustrating and ultimately self...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 9
The Joint Commission has revealed proposed requirements for its Advanced Palliative Care certification program. The program is based on the 2009 National Consensus Project's Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for Quality Palliative Care.
Every survey is a little bit different, but during Maine Medical Partners' most recent survey visit by The Joint Commission, it saw something no one had ever encountered before: The surveyors locked themselves in the bathroom. On purpose. "I've never seen surveyors be quite this interactive,"...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 9
There has to be a better way of developing risk matrices. This was the theory developed by Alan J. Card, MPH, CPH, CPHQ, PhD, president and CEO of Evidence-Based Health Solutions, LLC, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge Engineering Design Centre while working with his...
