One of the AHAP members asked us to circulate an opening at their facility for a Joint Commission survey coordinator in Houston. Check out more information here.
True or false: Psychiatric hospitals and acute hospitals that treat patients for behavioral or emotional illnesses need to have a process in place to identify patients who are at risk for suicide.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday its Final Rule on Meaningful Use. The rule, intended to spell out exactly what will constitute healthcare parties’ appropriate use of electronic health records, has been anticipated since the proposed rule was released in...
True or false: Informed consent includes information on the risks and hazards of a particular treatment, the alternatives or options available to the patient, the risks and hazards of the alternatives or options, and any other information that will help the patient make a well-informed decision...
Q. We are in the process of moving to an electronic system. How have other hospitals managed co-signatures on high-risk medications when nurses are scanning meds and patient IDs at the bedside? We would like to make it as easy as possible for the nurses.
In May, CMS released a set of updated clarifications to the often-challenging Anesthesia Services Conditions of Participation (CoP) Interpretive Guidelines.
These updates affected the following areas of Appendix A of the CMS State Operations Manual, section 482.52 a and b...
All you need to take advantage of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) latest tool is hospital administrative or claims data. Called MONAHRQ (My Own Network, Powered by AHRQ), the free tool is a software program built to allow organizations to analyze data and/or create their...