HCPro's first salary survey of accreditation professionals in three years found growth in both compensation and job responsibilities. Eighty-two accreditation professionals responded to the survey, up...

The Joint Commission released its list of top-cited standards for all of 2014 in April. Not surprisingly, the same standards around facilities and physical environment issues that appeared on the li...

This is the final installment of a three-part series in which the authors introduce the idea of workforce analytics and its impact on hospital organizations. ...

ECRI's 2015 list of top patient safety concerns offers some familiar foes along with some timely topics like workplace violence and scope reprocessing...

What is the best way to be prepared for patients each and every day? It is to create a safe, effective, and efficient system for providing patient care. It is to become knowledgeable and identify is...

The CMS earlier this year published revised guidelines for both Appendix A, Survey Protocol, Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals and Appendix W, Survey Protocol, Regulations and In...

A study published in the April edition of the Journal of Hospital Medicine combines the principles of real-time feedback and financial incentives to get frontline buy-in for quality improvement init...

Rule furthers CMS's plan to transition from fee-for-service payments to value-based purchasing by focusing on quality care...

HCPro's first salary survey of accreditation professionals in three years found growth in both compensation and job responsibilities. Eighty-two accreditation professionals responded to the survey, up...

In the months following the carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae outbreak linked to duodenoscopes, medical device manufacturer Olympus has repeatedly come under fire for its response to the outbr...