Operating under the assumption that the government is moving toward enacting reimbursement penalties for all-cause readmissions, some hospitals and readmission prevention experts are already developing corresponding strategies.
CMS has proposed to revise the survey, certification, and enforcement procedures related to CMS oversight of national accreditation organizations (The Joint Commission, DNV Healthcare, and the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program or HFAP). These revisions would implement certain...
True or False: The plan of care should be considered a living document that needs to be continually reviewed and revised as the patients’ care needs change.
The Joint Commission has released the latest of its ongoing “Speak Up ™” campaign, this time intended to provide advice on identifying the warning signs of depression and getting the most out of care and treatment for depression. Click the link above for more information.
Each fiscal year, CMS releases a financial report, and included in this tome-like document is an interesting bit of information for hospitals that use accrediting organizations (AO)-CMS provides a side-by-side comparison of what each organization does and how they stack up to each other in terms...
There is a whole field of medicine related to keeping patients safe in hospitals, and many of these professionals' daily jobs involve making sure patients are helped, not harmed, while receiving hospital care.
There is a whole field of medicine related to keeping patients safe in hospitals, and many of these professionals' daily jobs involve making sure patients are helped, not harmed, while receiving hospital care.
In just about every hospital, there is at least one person devoted to keeping patients safe from medication errors every step of the way: storing and labeling look-alike/sound-alike drugs properly, ensuring nurses hand off patients with a chance to ask questions, teaching the...
