Hello AHAP members, we’ve received a couple job openings and have been asked if we could share them with the membership in case anyone was interested in pursuing either of them. Please feel free to share amongst your colleagues. Contact information is at the end of the details below....
According to a recent post on the AARP blog, various companies and nonprofit organizations, such as The Leapfrog Group, HealthGrades, and The Joint Commission, may not see eye-to-eye when it comes to which hospitals are rated the best in quality and patient safety. Source:...
For the first time, providers, payers, and patients now have an enormous searchable database containing documents detailing about 8,000 serious federal safety rule violations—many of which have caused serious patient harm or death—at about 1,000 U.S. hospitals since January, 2011. Source:...
We’ve often heard that the building up of resistances to antibiotics by bacterial infections is a growing (and creeping) risk, but England’s top medical official had quite a bit to say on it in a recent statement. Read on.
Join us for the 7th Annual Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) Conference on June 6-7 in Las Vegas! Previous attendees can attest – The AHAP conference provides invaluable knowledge and education on quality improvement, Environment of Care, and compliance...
It isn't every day top health officials in the Obama administration and two national professional societies host an hour-long national webinar to praise your hospital for reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections in its intensive care units, and even send a U.S. Department of...
Hawaii Pacific Health has proved that high levels of quality improvement coupled with financial savings can change the way care is provided, after achieving an annual return on investment of nine percent over 10 years and saving over $52 million by reducing write offs and transcription costs...
