True or false: "A" EPs without an MOS require at least four months of monitoring....

Patient Safety Awareness Week is coming up and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) is extending its toolkits, aimed at cultural competency and reducing readmission rates, to all healthcare...

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True or false: Hospitals must establish time frames for the reporting of critical results AND they must monitor their performance...

Two former language-expert hospital administrators in conjunction with Language Line Services have released a new report called “The New Joint Commission Standards for Patient-Centered Care,&r...

We’ll be announcing the first of two winners in our AHAP Conference giveaway today, so keep an eye on the AHAP Blog and listserv to find out who won....

Based on the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals’ (AHAP) recent working group call on the subject, the organization has conducted a brief survey on the status of challenges ...

After reading this article, you will be able to: Describe changes to The Joint Commission’s medication reconciliation standards Discuss new requirements arising from The Joint Commiss...

Beep. Beep. Beep. The telltale noise of a hospital is the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps of the many machines hospital patients are hooked up to during their stay. These machines have alarms&mdas...

Shelley Lockard, RN, BSN, physician marketing coordinator at Indiana (PA) Regional Medical Center (IRMC), first encountered the HeartCaring® program, which she now coordinates, by finding a note ...