There was once a time when physicians played an authoritarian role. It was thought that the best medical outcomes were achieved when patients were left almost entirely in the dark, submitting to th...

High reliability is a new term for an old concept: providing the highest quality products or services consistently and uniformly to all customers. There has been a host of tools, guidelines, initia...

A preliminary denial offers a stark reminder that even top-rated hospitals are not ­immune to survey deficiencies...

Amid mounting evidence that contact precautions may not be necessary to prevent the transmission of certain infections, experts are calling for hospitals to reconsider what has been a staple of inf...

In August, Morehead Memorial Hospital of Eden, North Carolina, became the 150th hospital in the United States to receive ISO 9001:2008 certification from DNV-GL Healthcare. To earn it, Morehead had ...

There are two words hospital officials do not want to hear during a Joint Commission survey: "immediate threat." Yet that was the harsh reality facing officials several months ago at Virgin...

Sentinel events involving falls and the unintended retention of a foreign body were neck and neck through the first half of 2016, according to a release from The Joint Commission. Both types of sent...

Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt from The Joint Commission's recent webinar "Managing patient outcomes: The battle against sepsis!" discussing its disease-specific care prog...

Just as it has every year for the last 26 years, U.S. News & World Report recently released its hospital rankings for 2016-2017. This year, the organization named Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minne...

The Joint Commission's new standards for residential and outpatient eating disorder programs went into effect on July 1. The standards expand and add more specific guidelines on the care of eating dis...