Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
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11
Issue
34

What Exactly Is a "High-Performing" Health System?

February 17, 2026
Despite all the time, money, and energy spent on improving healthcare quality and value, there is no “overarching concept” or consistent definition of what constitutes a “high-perfor...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
18
Issue
9

Staff should be alert for mislabeled drugs

February 17, 2026
Remind nurses and other clinicians to remain alert for medication errors, including mislabeled products, and empower them to say something if they suspect a problem. After a customer complaint, C.O. ...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
- Volume
11
Issue
33

Joint Commission execs: Most outcome measures are inaccurate

February 17, 2026
In a new article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, two Joint Commission executives wrote “the criteria for assessing whether outcome measures are accurate and valid enough to use for public re...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
18
Issue
9

Bringing innovation to your facility

February 17, 2026
Editor’s note: Healthcare innovation involves doing something differently than how it’s normally done, whether it’s a new device, policy, or program. Many of these evidence-based pra...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
18
Issue
9

Mixing medicine

February 17, 2026
No physician or nurse injects medicine into a patient’s blood planning to make the patient sicker. Sadly, that’s exactly what happened to scores of providers back in 2012. This June, the f...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
- Volume
11
Issue
31

Fire and smoke: CMS clarifies which doors must be inspected annually

February 17, 2026
After pushback, federal officials backed away from their claim that smoke barrier doors must be inspected and tested annually. More than three weeks after a well-publicized compliance deadline passed,...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
- Volume
11
Issue
31

The Joint Commission Mock Tracer Made Simple, 19th Edition

February 17, 2026
The newest version of HCPro’s premier survey prep guide breaks down the latest Joint Commission standards in a mock survey checklist format and guides you through practice tracers throughout you...