Many hospitals across the nation are already working with health IT, including electronic health records (EHR) and bar code scanning­-especially as CMS' Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive program...

Test staff members' knowledge of The Joint Commission's Provision of Care standards with the following quiz. ...

Every few months we like to send out a request looking for member success stories—a new policy, a successful way of addressing a top cited standard, a new quality initiative—that a membe...

I just wanted to let you know that we’ve finally nailed down a date for the seventh annual AHAP conference. The 2013 AHAP conference will be held on June 6-7, 2013, and we’re going back ...

In November 2011, The Joint Commission issued a revised version of standard IC.02.04.01, regarding the influenza vaccine for licensed independent practitioners (LIP) and staff. This standard applied t...

In a recent post to their site, The Joint Commission announces that the organization is ready to assist member hospitals with increased demands for disaster preparedness following the Boston Maratho...

In a memorandum published to state survey agency directors March 15, CMS resoundingly announced its support of the use of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Common Formats to improv...

Q: What is expected of me when it comes to monitoring the performance improvement of contracted services? ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have granted deeming authority to The Joint Commission to accredit critical access hospitals, effective November 21, 2011....

In just about every hospital, there is at least one person devoted to keeping patients safe from medication errors every step of the way: storing and labeling look-alike/sound-alike drugs properly, en...