When is the right time to die? It's an uncomfortable topic on every level?difficult for patients to think about, frightening for their families to bring up, and challenging for healthcare providers...

CMS yesterday announced a proposed rule to adopt an updated edition of the Life Safety Code® for use in hospitals and other settings. ...

Mistakes happen. Many times when mistakes happen in hospitals, the hospital's system and process design has at least in part failed a frontline provider. How much of a human error is truly the fault o...

After reading this article, you will be able to: Describe the goals of the proposed changes to the CMS Conditions of Participation Identify key problem areas that will be pared down or improv...

According to a new Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, hospitals can drastically decrease the number of life-threatening central line infections in children with cancer by following three b...

The Joint Commission has released its July 2014 prepublication standards referencing changes to bring the organization's standards into better alignment with CMS Conditions of Participation. Let's tak...

The Joint Commission this week released its latest Sentinel Event Alert, this time targeting the safe use of opioids in the hospital setting. Opioids such as morphine, methadone, and oxycodone, the ...

True or False: Hospitals are permitted to substitute medications in the event of a shortage. ...

Has a Joint Commission surveyor ever called you by the wrong name? Did you accidently fumble your words while presenting the findings of your mock tracer to leadership? Or maybe you answered a serie...

Hospitals and physicians are increasingly working together to be more forthcoming with patients about medical errors and other causes of bad outcomes....