The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued 10 penalties to California hospitals after investigations that found that the facilities were noncompliant with licensing requirements that...

Everyone in healthcare knows about the struggles of medication reconciliation and its impact on patient safety and care. The Joint Commission takes notice, building standards and safety goals around s...

Test staff members' knowledge of Joint Commission standards on miscellaneous topics with the following ­questions. ­Answers are on p. 12....

A new collaborative is bringing the meaningful use of checklists to the ambulatory and outpatient setting. The goal is to establish "zero harm," and a key effort in this is to effectively im...

The hospital is a large, multifaceted organism with thousands of ­moving parts within dozens of units that are often separated by wings, streets, and buildings. The physical barriers, however, are...

As of March 2013, more than 85% of eligible hospitals are participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs, and more than 75% have received incentive payme...

Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is difficult to eradicate, much to the annoyance of many hospital infection preventionists....

A new player has entered the field for hospital accreditation: The Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) has received deeming authority from CMS for acute care hospitals. CIHQ joins The ...

Too many hospitals and healthcare leaders currently experience serious safety failures as routine and inevitable parts of daily work, according to an article published last week in The Milbank Quarter...

Lots going on in the regulatory landscape lately—much of it potentially very beneficial to you folks out there in radioland. On August 30, the folks at CMS issued a whole new set of waivers for ...