True or False: Patients and families of patients with an MDRO should be instructed on techniques to employ in the home to prevent the spread of the organism to other family members....

First the good news: Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps equipped with patient monitoring devices have helped avoid adverse events and saved hospitals money. The bad news? Hospitals are generally...

A partnership between an Indiana hospital and the Walgreens pharmacy chain eventually led to a program that has reduced unplanned hospital readmissions by 46% for participating patients....

The Joint Commission has revised its post-survey processes for rendering decisions of Accreditation with Follow-up Survey and Preliminary Denial of Accreditation....

CMS has begun adopting the preventable quality indicators (PQI) rate into its incentive and penalty program as a way to measure the number of preventable hospital admissions. However, PQI rates only...

CMS held a webinar on May 12 explaining the methodology and upcoming changes to its controversial five-star hospital ranking system. ...

Hospital rooms contain an increasing number of medical devices that don't talk to one another, which some say is a growing patient safety problem...

Compliance with the Conditions of Participation (CoP) is required to meet Medicare and Medicaid hospital regulations. CMS makes updates to the CoPs on its website, but few have the time to sort throug...

A new meta-study by a John Hopkins research team questions the validity of using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) patient safety indicators (PSI) and CMS’s hospital-...

On June 10, the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) released the second version of its 2015 Acute Hospital Care Final Standards....