In August, CMS announced a few changes to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), changing how pneumonia readmissions are calculated and making excessive coronary artery bypass grafts read...

Last month, we began our review of the year's most-cited Joint Commission standards by discussing the top 10 most challenging issues of 2013. This month, we continue our analysis and look at the remai...

As you are all no doubt familiar, sometimes those educational topics surrounding safety can come across as a bit dry and that dryness all too frequently ends up being the focal point of safety present...

The CMS announced plans to expand reporting of healthcare-associated infections to provide a clearer picture of hospital infection rates....

The CMS last week announced changes to its quality improvement organization program that re designed to help hospitals improve patient safety and quality....

Dialysis equipment must be properly maintained. ____________ and _____________ testing must be performed on all water used for dialysis....

The terms “contact,” “droplet,” and “airborne” refer to what?...

Health insurance providers have spent less than 1% of the premium dollars they collected from policy holders on quality initiatives, a Commonwealth Fund study said. Source: HealthLeaders Media ...

In our ongoing series (okay, perhaps that’s a rather ambitious descriptor, but there’s been more than one) relative to the upcoming implementation of the changes to OSHA’s Hazard Com...

As hospitals across the country search for ways to reduce readmissions in the wake of reimbursement cuts from CMS for rehospitalizations within 30 days, one statewide initiative in Minnesota may hav...