The Joint Commission and the American Medical Association (AMA)-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI) held the National Summit for Overuse last week to discuss strategies to improve patient care quality and minimize overuse of certain treatments
Hello, AHAP members. Every so often the association is approached by an organization seeking an accreditation professional and asks us to share a job posting. We’re happy to provide this service for our members whenever we can. Below is the complete listing for an opportunity we were...
The threat of loss of accreditation is one that keeps survey coordinators and hospital leaders awake at night, but for most hospitals, it's more of a bogeyman than an actual threat-there are many stages an organization must go through and fail before their accrediting bodies slam the hammer down...
There are certain requirements and regulatory factors that pose perpetual challenges for hospitals, familiar burdens that elicit nods of understanding and sympathy when organizations discuss the barriers to successfully keeping themselves in compliance. The recently relaxed "30-...
Medicare recently amplified its effort to improve healthcare quality and reduce costs by naming 89 new accountable care organizations (ACO). The ACO experiment-built upon increased care coordination, outcome-based incentives, and movement away from fee-for-service reimbursement-began...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 10
There are three separate tag numbers that hospitals must review in order to understand the CMS requirements for standing orders, protocols, and order sets. Additionally, CMS included information on this topic in the changes to the hospital Conditions of Participation (CoP), which were published...
Event reporting varies widely from facility to facility, and the kind of medical record system a facility uses (paper or electronic) can have a dramatic effect on its data collection and what can be done with that work. So when Jennifer Trallo, RN, MSN, MBA, director of quality...
