Members of the healthcare team should be ____________ involved in the timeout. ...

The Joint Commission has announced it will reinstate an anti-discrimination requirement which had previously been removed....

AHAP has started its own group on Facebook. Please stop by and feel free to join!...

Prior to 2005, the catheterization lab at Mercy Des Moines (IA)–Mercy Heart Hospital (MDM) had a team responsible for manual inventory of 2,200 medical items per day. This task was not only time...

Facilities across the country struggle daily with the challenges inherent to the use of restraints. For Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Midwestern Regional Medical Center, the decision w...

True or false: NIMS training is required of hospitals receiving certain federal funds to help the organization in its emergency preparedness efforts....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued a media advisory stating that hospitals and dialysis centers should do more to prevent central line bloodstream-associated infections...

We’ve launched our latest benchmarking survey, and this time we’re looking into Medical Staff and Credentialing Challenges....

Medication errors, patient identification errors, and surgical errors are some of the unfortunate events that take place all too frequently in healthcare. In the constant battle to prevent these adver...

True or false: When providing data for an MOS, four monthly data points are required. ...