The threat of penalties as high as 3% of a hospital's Medicare reimbursement has prompted encouraging reductions in costly readmissions, a top representative of the Obama administration told the Senate Finance Committee yesterday. Source:...
Editor's note: Culture Club is a new Patient Safety Monitor Journal feature that focuses on how combining safety efforts creates a more effective overall culture of safety.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 3
It's time again for the annual Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), an annual education and awareness campaign for healthcare safety led by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) that began in 2002.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 3
Editor's note: Sharon Chaput, RN, CSHA, is the director of regulatory and quality management at Brattleboro (Vt.) Retreat and advisory board member for both Briefings on The Joint Commission and the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals.
Editor's note: Culture Club is a new Patient Safety Monitor Journal feature that focuses on how combining safety efforts creates a more effective overall culture of safety.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 3
In 2010, staff at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., started to become interested in new UV light technology as a possibility to help reduce infections. Although the hospital had lower than average infection rates, infection control staff were having trouble...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 3
