True or False: Hospitals are expected to take steps to reduce the number of verbal and telephone orders. ...

In 1985 I was working in the corporate public ­relations office for a Fortune 100 company. It was an environment right out of the Dilbert comic strip-except that Dilbert had not been invented yet,...

Join us for the 7th Annual AHAP Conference on June 6-7 in Las Vegas! Previous attendees can attest – The AHAP conference provides invaluable knowledge and education you can’t get anywher...

Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual education and awareness campaign for healthcare safety sponsored by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), is this week, March 3-9, 2013. Join in act...

True or False: Medication labels should include the expiration date for medications that expire at or after 24 hours. For those that expire in less than 24 hours, a time must be included. ...

The 4th quarter Benchmarking Report and the year’s final AHAP Insider newsletter have been posted for members and can be downloaded....

Fill in the blank: Hospitals have an obligation to investigate outbreaks of infectious disease. They also have a responsibility, as required by law and regulation, to report that information to ______...

The Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality has announced that it is the latest organization to receive deemed status for acute care hospitals from CMS. This allows CIHQ’s hospital accredit...

One energetic hospitalist, lamenting a "vast culture of overuse and waste," is working with a team to rid his hospital of some unnecessary operational habits that evidence says should be h...

Fill in the blank: Hospitals should comply with the hand hygiene guidelines published by ________ or _______....