Patient Safety Awareness Week is coming up and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) is extending its toolkits, aimed at cultural competency and reducing readmission rates, to all healthcare organizations. In years past, the NPSF–which is the founding sponsor of Patient Safety...
Two former language-expert hospital administrators in conjunction with Language Line Services have released a new report called “The New Joint Commission Standards for Patient-Centered Care,” that finds hospitals are falling short of The Joint Commission’s language access requirements for...
Based on the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals’ (AHAP) recent working group call on the subject, the organization has conducted a brief survey on the status of challenges related to the Medical Staff chapter of The Joint Commission’s Comprehensive...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 3
Beep. Beep. Beep. The telltale noise of a hospital is the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps of the many machines hospital patients are hooked up to during their stay. These machines have alarms—as many as 400 per patient—and many are important. They alert staff if a patient needs immediate...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 3
Shelley Lockard, RN, BSN, physician marketing coordinator at Indiana (PA) Regional Medical Center (IRMC), first encountered the HeartCaring® program, which she now coordinates, by finding a note on her desk telling her that it was to be one...
