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...

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...

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 ...

A Canadian study of surgical safety checklists found no significant difference in outcomes after hospitals began using the tools. ...

The Joint Commission will add a Life Safety Code® surveyor to the survey team for ambulatory surgery centers beginning December 15....

A new report about Minnesota’s adverse event reporting system found that the state’s hospitals reported an increase in errors last year but the lowest number of deaths since 2011....

A new study finds that infections are the leading cause of post-surgical readmissions....

Fill in the blanks: A hospital ________________ should be performed on a regular basis to determine prevalence of any _____________ and its _______________....

Fill in the blank: When a patient is both in restraints AND secluded, the patient must be ______________ by ________________....