As the nation continues to discuss use of force by law enforcement, healthcare organizations must have their own discussions on how force is...Read More »
The Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) is asking for public comment through September on the 2022 update to the FGI Guidelines for Design and...Read More »
The number of sentinel events reviewed by The Joint Commission (TJC) in the first half of this pandemic-dominated year are well under the pace for...Read More »
Always being ready for survey can be one of the greatest challenges, but there are tools. In the following excerpt from HCPro’s recently published...Read More »
Given The Joint Commission’s (TJC) more than 60-year presence in hospital accreditation, Inside Accreditation and Quality went to CMS for some...Read More »
In an announcement that The Joint Commission (TJC) has been approved for two years as a Medicare accrediting organization (AO), CMS outlines what...Read More »
The steadily climbing maternal mortality rate in the U.S. has (appropriately) attracted a great deal of media attention over the last few years....Read More »
More than four months into the COVID-19 lockdown, we’re seeing some states gradually open up and others frantically put restrictions back in place...Read More »
Now that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has again renewed the official declaration of a public health emergency (PHE) related...Read More »