Motivated by improved efficiencies and monetary incentives, healthcare is migrating to electronic health records. While this solves the issue of physicians' sloppy handwriting on paper, and creates ...

Patient satisfaction and quality of care matter to most frontline staff and other hospital employees, and they certainly matter in terms of reimbursement. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcar...

Hospitals are permitted to define what medication information is necessary to be obtained from the patient in a non-24-hour setting. What information do we collect in our outpatient clinic and ED?...

As the healthcare industry continues to evolve and endure periods of upheaval, smart and savvy nurse leadership has never been more critical. But as Judy Watland, R.N., MSN, Senior Vice President an...

Join us for the 7th Annual Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) Conference on June 6-7 in Las Vegas! Previous attendees can attest – The AHAP conference provides inval...

With an increasing number of regulations, National Patient Safety Goals, Sentinel Event Alerts, and changes in procedure, medical staff may feel like they're stuck in an endless cycle of creating and ...

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care last week announced it has acquired the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program....

Fifteen years after the Institute of Medicine's landmark report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) convened quality care experts to discu...

To build more accountability in the area of patient safety, one group has crafted a tool staff are able to carry with them throughout the day. This tool, a patient safety expectations badge, is part o...

An HCPro webcast on August 20 will walk attendees through the mock survey process to help improve your facility’s compliance with The Joint Commission and CMS accreditation requirements. ...