A proposed rule from CMS would provide greater weight to patient preference during the hospital discharge process....

In this guest column, Heather Forbes, clinical education program coordinator for Maine Medical Partners, describes her first several months as an accreditation and regulatory coordinator. This is an e...

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With an increasing number of regulations, National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG), Sentinel Event Alerts, and changes in procedure, medical staff may feel like they're stuck in an endless cycle of cre...

Hand hygiene compliance and influenza vaccination are two patient safety practices that should be considered mandatory, according to experts at the National Patient Safety Foundation's (NPSF) Lucian L...

Less than five minutes after I was offered the position of accreditation and regulatory coordinator, panic set in. I was joining a world that I knew very little about, and a role that would impact t...

There is no magic structure, and one size does not fit all, but there are some general guidelines that can be helpful in structuring a tracer training program, implementing tracers, and reporting t...

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On September 17, the FDA issued a safety alert around infections associated with reprocessed flexible bronchoscopes. Although the level of concern over infection-related illnesses from bronchoscopes...

Work-life balance is a foreign term to most people in healthcare. Our industry is very good at taking care of other people, but it's not so great at taking care of its own. Part of the driving force...