Q: What must be documented in the medical record when a critical test result is reported from the laboratory to an inpatient nurse rather than directly to the physician?...

The Sixth Annual AHAP Conference provides an excellent forum to share your knowledge, accomplishments, and innovations with accreditation professionals across the country. AHAP is seeking poster pre...

True or False: Information in the patient’s record must support the care and treatment the patient is receiving. ...

The Joint Commission tracks and trends the most-cited standards to help healthcare organizations identify where the most challenging areas in the year’s surveys are occurring. The Joint Commis...

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has released six reports on data from California hospitals on a range of healthcare-associated infections, including central-line associated bloods...

The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare has released a new tool for hospitals intended to help identify risks and prevent wrong-site surgery. The Joint Commission has previou...

Based on the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals’ (AHAP) recent working group call on the subject, the organization has conducted a brief survey on the status of challenges ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new rule for hospital inpatient value-based purchasing that plans to give monetary incentive for hospitals to meeting and excee...

We’ll be announcing the first of two winners in our AHAP Conference giveaway today, so keep an eye on the AHAP Blog and listserv to find out who won....

Most healthcare leaders agree that quality improvement is a team effort. But the question is, how big a team?...