HFAP will be keeping its name. The accreditor had originally planned to take the name of the Accreditation Association for Hospitals/Health Systems (AAHHS), which acquired them in 2015 from the Americ...

 Healthcare facilities must ensure that infection prevention and control (IPC) and antibiotic stewardship (AS) programs work together, according to a joint position paper released last week....

Over the next four years, $383.7 billion will be spent on adverse patient safety events in the United States and Western Europe. Researchers at Frost & Sullivan analyzed 30 major patient safety co...

With all the recent focus on sexual harassment in the workplace, healthcare organizations shouldn’t expect to avoid scrutiny. Especially not from CMS or the press. ...

Involving patients in their care isn’t just polite, it’s a CMS requirement....

Presented on: March 22, 2018, 1:00-2:30 p.m. EST Presented by: Thomas R. Talbot, MD, MPH Level of Program: Intermediate Registration: http://hcmarketplace.com/hand-hygiene-program Summary: Thomas R...

For Necia Kimber, RN, CIC, MHA, infection control practitioner at Stillwater (Oklahoma) Medical Center, "one infection is too many." Fortunately, when it comes to C. diff, Kimber has infecti...

In a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma, the committee is asking for what could be reams of information from the agency about patient harm and incidents of misconduct at acute care hospitals. ...

CMS’ new Emergency Preparedness rule goes into effect on Wednesday, November 15, which means surveyors can now cite facilities who aren’t compliant with the rule’s requirements....

Unintended retention of a foreign body, patient falls, and wrong-site surgery top The Joint Commission’s full list of reported sentinel events for 2017....