Time for a little update from the field during survey year 2013. If there’s one topic (or topical set, if you will) that’s causing much angst in the survey world, it’s the focus be...

If a member of the voluntary medical staff is exposed to a communicable disease while caring for a patient at your facility, do you have any responsibility and what is it? ...

One Joint Commission survey finding I’ve noticed cropping up in a couple of instances has to do with the routine inspection, testing, and maintenance of critical components of medical gas and va...

Some hospitals believe they can't afford investing in assistive technologies that improve patient safety and protect nurses from injury. Can they afford not to? Click the link above to read more....

AHAP members, we just wanted to send out a reminder that our anonymous, annual salary survey is now live. Our most popular survey every year, this anonymously allows the organization to get a big pict...

Give two examples of resources or assets that could potentially be shared between healthcare organizations....

All hospitals must evaluate whether or not they are willing and able to accept a large influx of infected patients. If a hospital decides it is willing and capable of accepting such patients, what doe...

Not to belabor or otherwise abuse the deceased equine, I wanted to share with you a potential solution for those of you who might be struggling with high humidity levels in your surgical procedure are...

California's latest round of penalties for hospital blunders that resulted in patient harm or death includes a wrong-site surgery, feeding errors, a retained surgical object, and a number of unnecessa...

The CDC states that millions of people each year acquire infections while being treated in a healthcare facility. What is one of the most important ways you can personally help prevent the spread of...