The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has announced it will release a tool specifically targeting one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges–hand hygiene–in Sep...

Fall Working Group call We are currently looking for ideas or potential speakers for our fall working group call....

Thank you to all members who participated in our benchmark survey on restraints use. Results will be available on the AHAP website later this week, at www.accreditationprofessional.org....

The Joint Commission announced this week its most challenging requirements list for the first half of 2010. The list for hospitals is dominated, as it has in the past, with standards dealing with fire...

True or false: Hospitals should perform a risk assessment to determine what areas of the hospital are considered security sensitive....

AHAP would like to remind any members who would like to participate in our upcoming benchmarking survey on restraints use that there is still time....

The Joint Commission seeks feedback on revisions to the 2010 version of Universal Protocol (Hospital, Critical Access Hospital, Ambulatory Care, and Office-based Surgery programs)....

True or false: Patient and family education is a critical component when discharging a patient who is at risk for suicide....

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One of the AHAP members asked us to circulate an opening at their facility for a Joint Commission survey coordinator in Houston. Check out more information here....