True or False: Hospitals must provide patients, in writing, about their right to refuse care, treatment, or service. ...

Last week, the National Committee of Quality Assurance (NCQA) president issued accreditation to the first six physician-hospital networks that qualify as true accountable care organizations. The Nat...

True or False: The Joint Commission includes the ED as “a non-24 hour setting."...

Q: What is the basic model for conducting a risk assessment? ...

According to a recent post on the AARP blog, various companies and nonprofit organizations, such as The Leapfrog Group, HealthGrades, and The Joint Commission, may not see eye-to-eye when it comes t...

The 2013 AHAP conference, to be held June 6-7, 2013 at The Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, will include a poster session as part of its conference offerings. It’s an informal...

A Texas hospital announced it won’t accept the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award after former patients filed lawsuits alleging that the facility allowed a neurosurgeon to repeatedly botch ...

AHAP’s own Jodi Eisenberg was recently interviewed on the changing world of accreditation. AHAP has been given permission to reprint the contents of that Q and A. Click the link above to read mo...

A while back we discussed the two tribes that inhabit the healthcare world—the finders and the fixers. During that discussion, I advised the development of a more robust participation on the par...

The most recent round of administrative penalties for hospital deficiencies constituting immediate jeopardy includes two patient falls resulting in deaths, a wrong-site surgery, and a retained surgica...