Communication can be one of the hardest skills for anyone to master. Yet in healthcare, miscommunication can pose grave challenges to patient safety and care quality. A 2016 malpractice study conducte...

To boost patient safety and physician efficiency, Seattle Children's Hospital adopted overlapping emergency room shifts for physicians and achieved a dramatic reduction in patient handoffs, recent res...

Suicide prevention and ligature risk was a major topic at The Joint Commission (TJC)’s 2019 Executive Briefings this September. Many attendees had questions on risk assessments, physical environ...

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On September 5, The Joint Commission (TJC) announced scoring changes for its IC.02.02.01 standard, which requires facilities to reduce infection risk associated with medical equipment, devices, and su...

Violence against ER physicians is pervasive and increasing, research released this October shows. In a survey conducted for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), a majority of the 3,53...

Presented on: Wednesday, December 12 2018 |1:00-2:30 p.m. EST Presented by: Kurt A Patton, MS, RPh. Register: https://hcmarketplace.com/preliminary-denial-of-accreditation When the Joint Commission ha...

Thanks to fast acting by the pilots, all 155 passengers survived, with few major injuries, in the disaster dubbed “the Miracle on the Hudson.” However, trouble emerged in the aftermath whe...

In this issue: Patient safety: Use PEARR tool for step-by-step training on treating abuse and violence victims Patient safety: Review model created by Dignity Health for human trafficking resp...

A study that found independent hospital accreditation carries no real benefit for patient outcomes has garnered a formal rebuttal from The Joint Commission, which argues the researchers reached faulty...