Cultural awareness has risen to the top of healthcare development and concerns in recent years. Ensuring that patients' needs are met, that they understand the ­education given to them, that appro...

Ever since it was first introduced to The Joint Commission's Medical Staff standards in 2007, the concept of focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) has been something of a bugbear for hospita...

The Joint Commission has recently issued a set of FAQs regarding the use of unlicensed persons as scribes and how the organization's standards address this practice. It is worthwhile to take a look at...

In 2008, CMS published a ruling to stop reimbursing hospitals for certain healthcare-associated infections (HAI), including catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and central line-associ...

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...

Most infection control (IC) professionals can recite their No. 1 goal in their sleep: zero infections. Others also dream of 100% compliance with central line bundles, isolation precautions, and hand h...

In 2009, The Joint Commission added Leadership standard LD.03.01.01, "Leaders create and maintain a culture of safety and quality throughout the hospital," to recognize that behavior that in...

Cultural awareness has risen to the top of healthcare development and concerns in recent years. Ensuring that patients' needs are met, that they understand the ­education given to them, that appro...

Fill in the blank: When a hospital uses The Joint Commission for the purposes of deemed status, it must ensure that entries into patient medical records are ___________ and ___________. ...

Will any of you be headed to Brooklyn for Executive Briefings on September 5th? AHAP will be represented in the audience there (I’ll be in attendance to listen in on what The Joint Commission ...