Patient Safety

Q: What information should I have on hand about clinical contracts during a survey?Read More »

Medicare recently amplified its effort to improve healthcare quality and reduce costs by naming 89 new accountable care organizations (ACO). The...Read More »

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...Read More »

There are certain requirements and regulatory factors that pose perpetual challenges for hospitals, familiar burdens that elicit...Read More »

There are certain requirements and regulatory factors that pose perpetual challenges for hospitals, familiar burdens that elicit...Read More »

Test your staff's knowledge of The Joint Commission's rights, ethics, and communication standards. Answers are on p. 12.Read More »

In 2009, The Joint Commission added Leadership standard LD.03.01.01, "Leaders create and maintain a culture of safety and quality...Read More »

Editor's note: Columnist Catherine Hinz, MHA, works as a leader in patient safety at HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn....Read More »

It was a simple mistake she's still ashamed she made, but luckily when Elizabeth Butler, BA, a fourth-year medical student at the...Read More »

Despite already being below the national average on patient falls, Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center's staff and leadership still felt falls...Read More »