Last month, the White House convened a special forum on antibiotic stewardship in which more than 150 healthcare organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Joint C...

Even when patients are being cared for, the stress of being in hospitalized can put their health in jeopardy. Patients tend to sleep, eat and drink less and experience higher levels of stress than nor...

The Joint Commission is soliciting comments as part of a follow-up field review for its diagnostic imaging standards. These changes address quality and safety issues associated with diagnostic imaging...

What are two indications for the use of anticoagulant therapy? ...

Imagine a patient is admitted to your hospital from a trauma unit. A history is taken, multiple staff members evaluate her, and she is brought up to the inpatient unit. There, staff are hands on, help...

The Joint Commission this month launched a digital resource center aimed at reducing workplace violence in healthcare settings. The Workplace Violence Prevention Resources site was created in response...

Editor’s note: CMS, Joint Commission, hospital organizations, and private vendors each have their own way of calculating a hospital’s ranking and to improve patient care. While hospitals a...

For the last several years, The Joint Commission's semiannual list of the most-cited standards has read like a scene from Groundhog Day....

Gratitude is one of the most powerful forces that move an organization forward. It requires little to no increase in spending, increases employee engagement, decreases workforce stress and burnout, ...

A December 10 webinar from HCPro discusses how to prevent ED violence and design an effective violence prevention plan....