Keeping a hospital compliant and survey ready is a difficult, endless, and often frustrating task. One of the difficulties can be impressing the importance of accreditation to those who aren't immerse...

Attendees at this year's American Society of Healthcare Engineering conference were caught by surprise when George Mills, the Joint Commission's director of engineering, announced that Plans for Impro...

During your next Joint Commission survey, be prepared to answer three new questions before even starting your building tour....

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The time and effort spent on reporting quality measure data has been a major drain on healthcare practices across America. Medicaid in particular has reported that an increasing number of providers ha...

It’s been eight months since The Joint Commission’s new eating disorder standards for Behavioral Healthcare Accreditation went into effect. This week, the accreditor released a new R3 Repo...

Ten critical access hospitals (CAH) have agreed to take part in CMS’ Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) Demonstration this August, with the goal of improving care quality and ...

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Accreditation and quality professionals are being asked to do more than ever to comply with major changes coming out of CMS and The Joint Commission. Our expert instructors can help you with that. Th...

Editor's note: Recently, the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) released lists of its most-cited deficiencies of 2012-2015 for acute care and critical access hospitals. The following i...