Hospitals must implement additional measures to scope reprocessing procedures amid ongoing safety concern regarding instrumentation, according to patient safety experts. Anything less is unacceptabl...

Hospitals large and small share approaches to HA-VTE prevention through use of clinical decision-making tools, data analytics ...

EC.02.06.01 and IC.02.02.01 were the two most challenging standards for hospitals in 2015, both of which have significant patient safety implications...

EC.02.06.01 and IC.02.02.01 were the two most challenging standards for hospitals in 2015, both of which have significant patient safety implications...

In one of the most impressive BoosterPaks released by The Joint Commission, the accrediting body explores the ever-evolving challenges surrounding high-level disinfection and sterilization....

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices' (ISMP) recently released "2016?2017 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals," which includes revisions to two existing best pra...

The hospital accreditation landscape has grown more crowded in the last several years, but one accreditor is working to make its recent acquisition of another as seamless as possible....

The recently released CMS sepsis bundle has attracted a lot of criticism....

Researchers announced that, as of 2014, only 40% of all hospitals have a comprehensive antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) in place....

Between 2010 and 2014, preventable patient harm has been reduced by 39%, or 2.1 million fewer patients harm. This accounts for the saving of 87,000 lives and $20 billion, says CMS Acting Administrato...