Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Editor’s note: This is the first year that Medicaid in all 50 states has adopted some form of telemedicine coverage. While...Read More »

Editor’s note: The following is an article written by Maria Del Pilar Messner, corporate director of...Read More »

After a year of anticipation, Joint Commission surveyors finally started checking for compliance with the 2012 Life Safety Code® (LSC) and Health...Read More »

There's been much ado about The Joint Commission's new scoring system, the Survey Analysis for Evaluating Risk (SAFER) matrix. The matrix is a 3 x...Read More »

The Joint Commission in March unveiled Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) 57, which stresses the role of leadership in developing and sustaining a culture...Read More »

Editor’s note: Each year, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) Institute creates a Quality...Read More »

he Joint Commission announced it was changing its interim life safety measure (ILSM) evaluation process back in November 2016. From now on, the...Read More »