The Joint Commission revised the language to its pain management standard to encourage healthcare organizations to manage pain by using pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies.
The Leapfrog Group last week released the fall 2014 update to its Hospital Safety Scores, which find that hospital outcome performance is still lacking.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 11
CMS develops Conditions of Participation (CoP) that healthcare organizations must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. According to CMS, these health and safety standards are the foundation for improving quality and protecting the health and safety of...
When the Partnership for Patients (PfP) program was announced in April 2011, it was billed by CMS Administrator Don Berwick as "the largest national effort on patient safety that we've ever seen." With a $1 billion price tag, paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS...
Patient harm is a common discussion topic among healthcare practitioner and patient safety advocates, but despite that overwhelming concern, most don't have a lot of confidence in their current technology to track harm.
When the Partnership for Patients (PfP) program was announced in April 2011, it was billed by CMS Administrator Don Berwick as "the largest national effort on patient safety that we've ever seen." With a $1 billion price tag, paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 11
Editor's note: In this feature, BOJ advisor Jodi Eisenberg, MHA, CPHQ, CPMSM, CSHA, manager of accreditation, clinical compliance, and policy management for Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in Chicago, explains the steps and goals survey coordinators...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 11
We have seen some enormous numbers arising in the current Ebola outbreak in Africa, with information, both factual and fear-inspired, bubbling up as patients are brought stateside for care. So what are the facts, and what do we as accreditation professionals?tasked with patient safety,...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 11
CMS develops Conditions of Participation (CoP) that healthcare organizations must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. According to CMS, these health and safety standards are the foundation for improving quality and protecting the health and safety of...
In November 2013, when Richard Shannon, MD, arrived to his newly appointed position as executive vice president of health affairs at the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center in Charlottesville, he wasted little time setting a new precedent of patient safety for the health...
