Q: Which staff members should I give notice to once we know when our survey will take place? ...

For those organizations who make use of unlicensed personnel to act as scribes, The Joint Commission has published a few FAQs that provide some excellent insight into how that organization views unl...

Test staff members' knowledge of The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals with the following questions. ...

After reading this article, you will be able to: ...

Q: What tools should I use to track compliance issues and stay organized for survey readiness?...

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...

When the Partnership for Patients (PfP) program was announced in April 2011, it was billed by CMS Administrator Don Berwick as "the largest national effort on patient safety that we've ever see...

It isn't every day top health officials in the Obama administration and two national professional societies host an hour-long national webinar to praise your hospital for reducing central line-associ...

We’ve often heard that the building up of resistances to antibiotics by bacterial infections is a growing (and creeping) risk, but England’s top medical official had quite a bit to say o...

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