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HFAP will be keeping its name. The accreditor had originally planned to take the name of the Accreditation Association for Hospitals/Health Systems (AAHHS), which acquired them in 2015 from the Americ...

 Healthcare facilities must ensure that infection prevention and control (IPC) and antibiotic stewardship (AS) programs work together, according to a joint position paper released last week....

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Ideally, everyone could go to work without having to worry about harassment and reprisal. But since this isn’t an ideal world, healthcare organizations must act. Kate Fenner, PhD, RN, is managin...

On July 1, 2018, The Joint Commission will implement three new elements of performance (EP) for maternity care. The announcement, which came in the latest R3 Report, is intended to reduce the risk of ...

One of the major concerns former Joint Commission surveyor Ernest Allen has with CMS’ new ligature standards is that they don’t distinguish between geriatric and adult behavioral health u...

Thanks to a January rule change, if a Joint Commission surveyor sees anyone who directly cares for patients fail to perform required hand hygiene, that person’s healthcare organization will rece...

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Check your inventory of the duodenoscopes in your hospital as well as any off-campus clinics or ambulatory care centers, now that the FDA has issued yet another urgent infection control recall for the...