The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced good news for healthcare-associated infections:...

AHAP’s annual conference takes place this week, Thursday, May 10 and Friday, May 11....

Editor's note: The following article was written by ­Christine Levy, RD, MBA, MHA, FACHE, CSHA, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, who has served as the Joint Commission sustainment officer for a ...

In the May issue of The Joint Commission Perspectives™, The Joint Commission lists top standard compliance issues for 2010. And just like in previous years, ­infection control (IC) standards...

Operating under the assumption that the government is moving toward enacting reimbursement penalties for all-cause readmissions, some hospitals and readmission prevention experts are already develop...

Test staff knowledge on The Joint Commission's medication management standards with the following questions. ­Answers are on p. 12....

Tucked away on the far side of mountain passes in northeast Oregon, the 25-bed critical access Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande provides much-­needed care for a populace that can be cut off from...

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...

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...

Every hospital that receives reimbursement from Medicare or Medicaid must follow certain Conditions of Participation (CoP) set out by CMS. The agency recently issued a memo to update five sections of ...