Hospitals seeking accreditation have more options than ever. The Joint Commission, DNV, and AAHHS (which acquired HFAP in 2015) are all well established, but don’t count out the Center for Impro...

As The Joint Commission shifted to a more integrated survey, many hospitals moved away from the chapter leader approach....

As of March 2013, more than 85% of eligible hospitals are participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs, and more than 75% have received incentive payme...

During a recent survey, an interesting question was posed to the folks in Facilities, a question more than interesting enough to bring to your attention. The folks were asked to produce a policy tha...

After much anticipation from patient safety experts, on October 20, The Joint Commission released its new Patient Safety Systems chapter, which will be included in the 2015 Comprehensive Accreditation...

The emergency room physician who initially misdiagnosed the first Ebola patient on U.S. soil now admits he didn’t get the case right....

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $840 million in funding to improve emergency preparedness of state and local public health and healthcare systems....

Does your organization have a formalized process for debriefing after an adverse event? And if so, is it working? For many organizations, reporting of adverse events can be problematic, with challen...

The Joint Commission is adding a new patient safety-focused chapter to its accreditation manual and has redesigned the chapter on sentinel events....

The Joint Commission is putting its Top Performer on Key Quality Measures program on hiatus in 2016 while it determines how to re-tool the program....