Use these checklists to stay ahead of promised COVID-19 focus during surveys

March 10, 2020
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 14 Issue 11
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

Download checklists provided by CMS and the CDC to review your infectious disease preparedness plans as CMS signals again that it expects...Read More »

BREAKING: (COVID-19) CMS says primary survey focus will be on infection control preparedness

March 10, 2020
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 14 Issue 11
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

CMS ordered its state and regional surveyors to suspend “non-emergency inspections across the country” to allow “inspectors to turn their focus on...Read More »

HHS Unveils Strategy to Reduce EHR Burden for Clinicians

March 3, 2020
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 14 Issue 10
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

The federal government has released its long-awaited plan to...Read More »

Verma Raps Accrediting Organizations’ ‘Glaring Conflict of Interest’

March 3, 2020
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 14 Issue 10
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator...Read More »

Inside Accreditation and Quality, March 2020

March 2, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 3
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter Read More »

Becoming a High-Reliability Organization Through Shared Learning of Safety Events

February 25, 2020
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 21 Issue 3
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Leadership & Finance, Quality & Errors

Nearly 20 years after the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err Is Human, healthcare providers look to methodologies used in...Read More »

Joint Commission portal addresses nurse burnout

February 25, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 3
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Leadership & Finance, Healthcare Staff

In July 2019, the accreditation agency released Quick Safety Issue 50: Developing Resilience to Combat Nurse Burnout, published to help...Read More »

Value-Based Metrics Penalize Top-Performing Hospitals

February 25, 2020
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 14 Issue 9
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

Hospitals that are recognized for high-quality cardiac care...Read More »

Identifying issues and finding solutions…

February 24, 2020
Mac's Safety Space - Volume 14 Issue 2
Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

…versus identifying...Read More »

New Data on Sepsis Prevalence and Costs ‘Astonished’ DHHS Researchers

February 18, 2020
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 14 Issue 8
Infection Control, Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The largest sepsis study every conducted with Medicare data found a 40% increase in the rate of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with the...Read More »

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