Event reporting varies widely from facility to facility, and the kind of medical record system a facility uses (paper or electronic) can have a dramatic effect on its data collection and what can be d...

Are you going to NAHQ on September 20 – 23?...

The results of our latest benchmarking survey, the annual Accreditation Professional Salary survey, have been posted to the AHAP site. Click the link above to get the results. ...

Join us for the 7th Annual Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) Conference on June 6-7 in Las Vegas! Previous attendees can attest – The AHAP conference provides inval...

On April 5, 2013, CMS released a proposed rule to the Survey, Certification and Enforcement Procedures, at 42 CFR §488 and 42 CFR §489. The proposed rule significantly strengthens the oversight by CMS...

We know that measuring healthcare quality helps healthcare systems improve. But we could and should be doing it a lot better. Click the link above to read more....

Ever since it was first introduced to The Joint Commission's Medical Staff standards in 2007, the concept of focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) has been something of a bugbear for hospita...

Fill in the blank: If a patient is unable to participate in decisions about his or her care or treatment, the hospital should involve ___________. ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the winners for the second and final batch of the Health Care Innovation Awards. CMS awarded 81 projects, including collaboration...

If you haven’t already, here's another chance for you join in on the first benchmarking survey of 2012 on recent survey observations....