A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology found that hospitals may have dodged financial penalties by billing hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) as present at the time of the...

In this issue: Patient safety: TJC urges hospitals to educate staff on spotting patients who might be victims of human trafficking Patient safety work tool: Use CDC checklist to help reduce...

This July we’re going to be running two Accreditation and Quality focus groups. The first 10 people to sign up will recieve a free on-demand webinar from HCPro. You only have to do one of the f...

UTIs are five times less common than non-infectious problems caused by indwelling urinary catheters....

Lutheran is among the healthcare organizations nationwide that in recent years decided to try hand hygiene monitoring technology in the hopes it could improve hand hygiene compliance—and in the proces...

Appropriate sharing of records for patients with substance abuse disorders should be easier under a second final rule issued January 3 by HHS and its Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admini...

Spurred by coordination problems identified after several recent mass shootings, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 3000, a Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER), is ...

In just two years, Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago faced down HAIs, cutting its HAI rate by 90% and saving itself $498,000. The hospital even won the Illinois Health and Hospital Association’s...

The Joint Commission is the latest healthcare heavy-hitter to call for better protection of healthcare workers, announcing the creation of Sentinel Event Alert 59, which addresses violence—physi...

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