Be prepared to be held accountable for actions by contractors, staff, or volunteers that result in noncompliance with CMS’ Conditions of Participation (CoP) and put a patient in harm’s way. Even if those actions are unintentional, your facility still could face a finding of immediate jeopardy (...
Next year, patients and potential parents will have one more metric by which to judge your hospital. Starting July 2020, The Joint Commission (TJC) will publicly report hospitals that have consistently high C-section rates on its Quality Check website...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 30, Issue 5
In response to last week’s modified Top 10 list (there’s been a request for another list regarding point-of-care/point-of-service staff knowledge of EC stuff—coming soon...
First a quick (moderately revelatory) story: While traveling last week, I had the opportunity to see Creed II on the plane (I found it very entertaining, though somewhat...
