Test your staff's knowledge of The Joint Commission's rights, ethics, and communication standards. Answers are on p. 12....

There are certain requirements and regulatory factors that pose perpetual challenges for hospitals, familiar burdens that elicit nods of understanding and sympathy when organizations discuss the barri...

Event reporting varies widely from facility to facility, and the kind of medical record system a facility uses (paper or electronic) can have a dramatic effect on its data collection and what can be d...

"A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow."...

The threat of loss of accreditation is one that keeps survey coordinators and hospital leaders awake at night, but for most hospitals, it's more of a bogeyman than an actual threat-there are many stag...

There are three separate tag numbers that hospitals must review in order to understand the CMS requirements for standing orders, protocols, and order sets. ­Additionally, CMS included information ...

Medicare recently amplified its effort to improve healthcare quality and reduce costs by naming 89 new accountable care organizations (ACO). The ACO experiment-built upon increased care coordination...

The threat of loss of accreditation is one that keeps survey coordinators and hospital leaders awake at night, but for most hospitals, it's more of a bogeyman than an actual threat-there are many stag...

It is often said that the accreditation world is growing more streamlined. With Joint Commission standards more aligned with CMS requirements than ever before, and The Joint Commission's two primary c...

True or False: Most hazardous materials/waste spills in hospital are of a minor threat to people or the environment. As a result, most of the time, the spills can be easily mopped up. ...