We're trying to get a potential Suicide Prevention in Hospitals book approved and need your help. If you have a minute, please email bward@hcpro.com with your responses to the following. Is ...

The study’s researchers recommend that organizations should stop using performance measures until they can be assessed and revised...

The Joint Commission is the latest healthcare heavy-hitter to call for better protection of healthcare workers, announcing on Tuesday the creation of Sentinel Event Alert 59, which addresses violence&...

HFAP will be keeping its name. The accreditor had originally planned to take the name of the Accreditation Association for Hospitals/Health Systems (AAHHS), which acquired them in 2015 from the Americ...

 Healthcare facilities must ensure that infection prevention and control (IPC) and antibiotic stewardship (AS) programs work together, according to a joint position paper released last week....

Ideally, everyone could go to work without having to worry about harassment and reprisal. But since this isn’t an ideal world, healthcare organizations must act. Kate Fenner, PhD, RN, is managin...

On July 1, 2018, The Joint Commission will implement three new elements of performance (EP) for maternity care. The announcement, which came in the latest R3 Report, is intended to reduce the risk of ...

One of the major concerns former Joint Commission surveyor Ernest Allen has with CMS’ new ligature standards is that they don’t distinguish between geriatric and adult behavioral health u...

Thanks to a January rule change, if a Joint Commission surveyor sees anyone who directly cares for patients fail to perform required hand hygiene, that person’s healthcare organization will rece...

Click here for the full April 2018 Patient Safety Monitor Journal...