Healthcare has come a long way in identifying safety issues-even the possibility of safety issues-but as many quality directors and frontline staff know, identifying is not solving.
Hospitals in Connecticut—from Bridgeport to Greenwich and beyond—have looked toward the aviation industry and other high-risk professions to help them operate more smoothly and safely, according to the...
Health insurance providers have spent less than 1% of the premium dollars they collected from policy holders on quality initiatives, a Commonwealth Fund study said. Source: ...
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...
The 2013 AHAP conference, to be held June 6-7, 2013 at The Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, will include a poster session as part of its conference offerings. It’s an informal way for hospitals to share their accreditation- and survey-related successes with each other...
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:...
