The July issue of the AHAP Insider is now posted on the AHAP website and available for download. This quarter’s issue features the 2012 salary survey results benchmarking report, profiles of t...

True or False: Hospitals are expected to take steps to reduce the number of verbal and telephone orders. ...

Consumer Reports magazine has issued hospital safety ratings for 1,159 hospitals in 44 states, using several different measures than the Leapfrog Group’s recent and controversial hospital lett...

For those of you following The Joint Commission’s ongoing “Speak Up” campaign for patient education, the accrediting body has released a new video (and transcript) in the series. T...

The July issue of the AHAP Insider is now posted on the AHAP website and available for download. This quarter’s issue features the 2012 salary survey results benchmarking report, profiles of t...

Q: During our recent survey, the surveyor cited three instances where the preprocedure H&P was missing elements based on the medical staff rule requirements. How can I clarify this? ...

True or False: The Medical Staff bylaws should identify who is allowed to grant temporary privileges during a hospital emergency. ...

The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare released a new Hand-off Communications Targeted Solutions Tool™ (TST) to help health care organizations with the process of passing pati...

You can have the best policies and procedures in the world, but if communication and understanding by those who need to know is not available, the intent of the patient rights chapter will never com...

We just wanted to let you know about an upcoming webcast that accreditation professionals might be interested in listening to....