Ensure compliance with CMS’ restraint guidelines! Use of restraint and seclusion is fraught with difficulties and is therefore a top focus of CMS and other regulatory bodies. Staff must be trai...

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ECRI Institute has revealed its top 10 list of health technology hazards for 2016, and for those of us working in patient safety and quality, few if any should come as a surprise....

Preparing for CMS and Joint Commission surveys is a crucially important task, but are you focusing on the right things? There's a chance you're not. ...

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Please join us on Wednesday, February 24 for our featured webcast: "CMS Surveys: Preparing With Confidence!" As CMS increases the frequency of its hospital surveys, many healthcare faciliti...

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Editor's note: The following article was written by healthcare consultants Marlene Strader, PhD, RN, and BOAQ advisor Elizabeth Di Giacomo-Geffers, RN, MPH, CSHA. Both are former surveyors for The Joi...

Medications that are prepared outside the pharmacy will soon come under more intense scrutiny by state surveyors, based on recent CMS updates related to pharmacy services. ...

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