In this issue: Infection control: Examine your dialysis space to ensure room to separate infectious patients Work tool: Use this checklist for EC, IC compliance in dialysis areas Dialysis co...

Modify the Triage by Resource Allocation for IN-patient (TRAIN) matrix to suit your facility’s needs in case of a mass evacuation....

Expect CMS to continue pressuring The Joint Commission (TJC) and other accrediting organizations (AO) to find more of the serious life safety, environment of care, and infection control issues the fed...

The Joint Commission (TJC) is revising five elements of performance (EP) following a CMS review of TJC’s EP Review Project for its Leadership (LD) chapter. The revisions go into effect starting ...

There was a far-ranging medication management discussion held at The Joint Commission’s 2019 Executive Briefings this September. Led by Robert Campbell, PharmD, a pharmacist with The Joint Commi...

On October 10, Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida, forcing at least two hospitals to evacuate all of their patients after their buildings sustained heavy damage. On the same day, The Joint Com...

CMS wants to put a stronger spotlight on times when TJC and other AOs fail to find patient safety problems later discovered by CMS survey teams conducting performance checks referred to as validation ...

A cohort of about 150 physician groups sent a letter both commending and criticizing the Trump administration's planned changes to the 2019 physician fee schedule. ...

With a span of providers reaching almost half the country, the Dignity Health system kicked off its Human Trafficking Response (HTR) Program in 2014 with the intent of identifying and helping traffick...

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