At least 32 patients fell ill and 11 died after contracting a superbug infection at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle between 2012 and 2014....

This is an opinion, written by someone who in the interest of full disclosure is a director of patient experience and worked for the Studer Group. I am sick and tired of recently reading so many art...

On March 1, the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Olympus Corp. with paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to hospitals and doctors to buy its products. The company, which owns 85% of the U.S. end...

In the May edition of The Joint Commission Perspectives, The Joint Commission announced its new Survey Analysis for Evaluating Risk (SAFER) matrix will be replacing the current scoring methodology, wh...

As the struggle against opioid addiction rages on, The Joint Commission is facing criticism that its pain management standards are contributing to the problem....

When it comes to projects for improving the culture of safety in any healthcare organization, the first question is usually the same in most facilities: “Where do we start?” The Cente...

In 2011, some of the hospitals within Adventist Health System (AHS), headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Fla., embarked on mortality reviews for patients in their EDs—and didn’t like wha...

A new study found that nurse-physician collaboration helps reduce healthcare-associated infections....

Accreditation specialists are invited to take our 2015 salary survey....

A study found that using a computerized safety checklist that pulls information from electronic medical records led to a drop in a serious healthcare-acquired infection....