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This index provides you with a handy listing of all the articles in Briefings on Accreditation and Quality (formerly known as Briefings on The Joint Commission) in 2015. ...

After a year of increased scrutiny over infection control issues related to endoscope reprocessing, many hospitals will encounter another challenge: Thousands of machines used to wash and perform high...

An environment where suicide risk reduction strategies have been implemented can delay spontaneous impulses and allows staff an opportunity to identify an impending crisis, to use de-escalation tec...

Medicare is lowering all its payments to 758 hospitals by 1% over the course of the federal fiscal year....

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Hospitals continue to struggle with several Joint Commission standards, including those covering such important areas as completion of medical records, medication storage, and disinfection and clean...

In early October, the Accreditation Association, the parent company of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) announced it had acquired the Health Facilities Accreditation Pr...

As CMS works to get its legislative agenda back on track, there are several key issues that The Joint Commission is tracking, including the adoption of a newer edition of the Life Safety Code® (LS...