Hospitals are feeling the heat to reduce readmissions, with 2,610 receiving fines from Medicare for having too many patients return within 30 days for more treatment....

While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some int...

In this era of mergers, acquisitions, and the building of replacement hospital facilities, many survey coordinators are faced with maintaining an overall inventory of licenses, accreditations, and c...

While The Joint Commission's official top-cited standards don't appear until each fall's Executive Briefings, a recent American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) conference revealed some int...

What are the time parameters for completing a history and physical?...

Fill in the blank: When a patient is both in restraints AND secluded, the patient must be ______________ by ________________....

Fire drills are required “one per shift, per quarter” in buildings designated as healthcare occupancy, for example, an inpatient care unit. What Life Safety Code® designation requires ...

After it stopped public reporting data on hospital-acquired conditions, the CMS now plans to resume releasing the data on its website....

Eight of The Joint Commission’s top 10 standards compliance issues for the first half of 2014 are safety-related....

The e-SOC is comprised of two basic sections. Name them....