Upcoming HCPro webcast will describe how to build patient safety and quality programs that measure and improve clinical and financial outcomes....

While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some int...

When The Joint Commission announced its proposed changes to NPSG.07.06.01 in September, it's likely that they were met with more shrugged shoulders than panicked expressions....

Every organization struggles with falls prevention, and finding new, effective, and sustainable ways to prevent falls is one of the great challenges for both inpatient and outpatient care. One organiz...

A surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, N.Y., is accused of slapping anesthetized patients on the buttocks and calling them names before surgery, according to a CMS report...

Hospital associations, Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO), and health system organizations now have a goal of reducing current overall levels of patient harm and 30-day readmissions by 20% and 1...

As of today, CMS, The Joint Commission, and HFAP will be surveying hospitals to the 2012 Life Safety Code® (LSC). The various agencies have spent months changing their survey processes and updat...

Some nursing leadership trends emerged quietly this year, but are nonetheless provocative for how they force us to think about nursing and how they force nurses to think about themselves as caregivers...

A Durham, North Carolina ophthalmologist and hospital were found negligent by a jury after a drug mix-up during cataract surgery left a patient with severe eye damage....

Q: During our recent survey, a surveyor sited open flash pans poststerilization being transported without a cover. How can I clarify this? ...