For the first time, providers, payers, and patients now have an enormous searchable database containing documents detailing about 8,000 serious federal safety rule violations—many of which hav...

Whose name(s) should be documented in the patient record when a verbal order is given? ...

We’ve often heard that the building up of resistances to antibiotics by bacterial infections is a growing (and creeping) risk, but England’s top medical official had quite a bit to say o...

Join us for the 7th Annual Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) Conference on June 6-7 in Las Vegas! Previous attendees can attest – The AHAP conference provides inval...

Q: What is the basic model for conducting a risk assessment? ...

It isn't every day top health officials in the Obama administration and two national professional societies host an hour-long national webinar to praise your hospital for reducing central line-associ...

Hawaii Pacific Health has proved that high levels of quality improvement coupled with financial savings can change the way care is provided, after achieving an annual return on investment of nine per...

Hospital executives are lashing out at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and its emergency department throughput metrics posted on the Hospital Compare website. The measures are the fe...

True or False: The Joint Commission includes the ED as “a non-24 hour setting."...

Join us for the 7th Annual AHAP Conference on June 6-7 in Las Vegas! Previous attendees can attest – The AHAP conference provides invaluable knowledge and education you can’t get anywhere ...