As of October 1, hospital-owned off-site emergency departments (ED) are eligible for The Joint Commission’s Acute Stroke-Ready Hospital (ASRH) certification program....

Even when patients are being cared for, the stress of being in hospitalized can put their health in jeopardy. Patients tend to sleep, eat and drink less and experience higher levels of stress than nor...

Through the third quarter of 2015, the top sentinel events reported to The Joint Commission were wrong-patient/wrong-site/wrong-procedure errors, unintended retention of a foreign body, and suicide....

Last month, the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a safety communication concerning Nontuberculous mycobacterium infections related to heater-cooler devices....

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What are your biggest job challenges and priorities? Give us your feedback as we prepare accreditation compliance products for 2016....

The CMS last week released revised hospital guidance for pharmaceutical services and expanded guidance related to compounding medications. ...

Here we will focus specifically on tracer training and implementation: the "who," "what," and "when" of this key component of a continuous survey readiness plan. This i...

What are the CMS and Joint Commission hot spots for 2016? Join Bud Pate, REHS, and Lisa Eddy, RN, CPHQ, on Wednesday, December 16 at 1 p.m. ET as they examine current survey focuses and point out wher...

The latest release of the Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Scores finds slow patient safety improvement in U.S. hospitals....