The newest version of HCPro’s premier survey prep guide breaks down the latest Joint Commission standards in a mock survey checklist format and guides you through practice tracers throughout you...

After pushback, federal officials backed away from their claim that smoke barrier doors must be inspected and tested annually. More than three weeks after a well-publicized compliance deadline passed,...

Time is running out to meet the new emergency management (EM) Conditions of Participation (CoP) and The Joint Commission’s revised pain management standards. The EM Interpretive Guidelines go ...

In a new article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, two Joint Commission executives wrote “the criteria for assessing whether outcome measures are accurate and valid enough to use for public re...

Despite all the time, money, and energy spent on improving healthcare quality and value, there is no “overarching concept” or consistent definition of what constitutes a “high-perfor...

The Joint Commission confirmed Thursday afternoon that a key figure in standards interpretation for the healthcare accrediting organization will be departing this fall....

The Joint Commission will delete performance improvement standard PI.02.01.03 and its single element of performance on January 1, 2018. The standard had required facilities to receive a composite pe...

The Platinum Awards sets the standard for recognizing professionals and organizations who demonstrate success in the overarching healthcare continuum. Like no other awards program in the industry, th...

Hello! It's book season at HCPro (also Halloween/Thanksgiving/sweater season) and we need your help! This is the time when we come up with possible book ideas for 2018. But of course, we don't wan...

A team of physicians from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has put forward a strategy that aims to standardize infection prevention guidelines for procedures performed outside the operatin...