Patient Safety Awareness Week is coming up and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) is extending its toolkits, aimed at cultural competency and reducing readmission rates, to all healthcare...

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Improving nursing-sensitive indicators (NSI) or organizational indicators with a nursing component requires participation of direct-care bedside nurses. Quality improvement (QI) programs designed by o...

Sometimes it takes a spark to bring about a large, important change in an organization. For St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estate, IL, changing to an improved electronic policy and procedure pr...

The Joint Commission has just released a new R3 report examining the 2012 National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) related to catheter-associated urinary tract infections, or CAUTI....

AHAP is currently looking for topic suggestions for its upcoming benchmarking survey. If there are any particular topics you’d like us to report on, please contact Matt Phillion directly at mp...

A culture of safety can be an elusive concept, making it difficult to create and even harder to sustain. That's why one region of VHA, Inc., is helping to lead its hospitals toward that goal one step ...

Lab AdvantageTM has launched a new web site to help highlight the concerted efforts of The Joint Commission, the American Proficiency Institute (API) and the American Society for Clinical Pathology...

The Joint Commission released its latest Sentinel Event Alert this morning highlighting the need for healthcare facilities and staff to maintain radiation doses as low as possible during diagnostic ...

Most clinicians understand the dangers multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) present to patients. Most also understand that these germs are easily spread through hands and other surfaces, and that hand...