The Joint Commission (TJC) announced revisions to its anticoagulant therapy National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on December 7. NPSG 03.05.01 has eight new Elements of Performance (EPs). The accreditor...

The Joint Commission (TJC) this week announced revisions to its suicide prevention National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) to improve quality and safety of care for patients treated for behavioral health ...

Modify the Triage by Resource Allocation for IN-patient (TRAIN) matrix to suit your facility’s needs in case of a mass evacuation....

While CMS posts updates to the CoPs on its website, they are often difficult to search and lengthy, not to mention tedious to print. This is where HCPro comes in! We have taken the most recent version...

Presented on: Wednesday, December 12 2018 |1:00-2:30 p.m. EST Presented by: Kurt A Patton, MS, RPh. Register: https://hcmarketplace.com/preliminary-denial-of-accreditation When the Joint Commission ha...

Thanks to fast acting by the pilots, all 155 passengers survived, with few major injuries, in the disaster dubbed “the Miracle on the Hudson.” However, trouble emerged in the aftermath whe...

A study that found independent hospital accreditation carries no real benefit for patient outcomes has garnered a formal rebuttal from The Joint Commission, which argues the researchers reached faulty...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is encouraging healthcare organizations to improve their use of antibiotic medications through U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week, which takes place th...

Drawing information from patients can help boost understanding of why diagnostic errors happen and reduce the risk of future errors, research published this week says....

A new risk model provides a simple and inexpensive way to determine whether acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients are at high risk for hospital readmission. ...