CMS announced on September 8 that it had finalized new emergency response requirements for healthcare providers participating in the Medicare or Medicaid system.The new rules go into effect on November 8, 2016 and must be implemented by November 15, 2017.
The Mayo Clinic experienced a highly publicized case of drug diversion back in 2008, where a nurse was caught stealing fentanyl from patients about to have a catheter inserted. The incident prompted the Mayo Clinic to take proactive steps toward drug diversion.
John Hopkins researchers looked at three years and 4,500 acute-care facilities worth of readmission and mortality data, finding that hospitals with high readmission rates tended to have lower mortality rates as well.
was denied full Joint Commission accreditation, in part due to its handling of fire drills. The Joint Commission has released a new fire drill matrix for facilities to forestall confusion on survey day.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 27, Issue 9
The Joint Commission released its sentinel event statistics for the first half of 2016 in the August edition of Perspectives. The report relies on self-reported data and only shows a small portion of the never events that occur each year. The report, based on 349 reported events...
Keeping a hospital compliant and survey ready is a difficult, endless, and often frustrating task. One of the difficulties can be impressing the importance of accreditation to those who aren't immersed in it on a daily basis. As such, it can help to remember what the...
Several months after more than 60 medical experts and advocacy groups called on CMS to remove the pain treatment questions from patient surveys, the agency has announced a proposal to do just that.
A finalized Joint Commission standard, along with proposed CMS regulations, place more emphasis on program leadership and providing resources for measurement and action
