Last month in this space, we began our discussion of the latest round of changes from CMS, specifically ­targeting order sets, preprinted orders, and standing orders. Following up on where we left...

Every fall, The Joint Commission unveils updated statistics regarding the standards and ­National Patient Safety Goals that have been causing the most ­problems with compliance out in the fiel...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the final 2014 clinical quality measures (CQMs)....

Every few months we like to send out a request looking for member success stories—a new policy, a successful way of addressing a top cited standard, a new quality initiative—that a membe...

Q: Do you have any advice on how to format evidence for a clarification or choosing a sampling method to submit to The Joint Commission? ...

For hospitals using The Joint Commission for the purposes of deemed status, verbal orders should be signed within ________ except when ____________. ...

Every few months we like to send out a request looking for member success stories—a new policy, a successful way of addressing a top cited standard, a new quality initiative—that a membe...

I just wanted to remind everyone that our latest benchmarking survey is still open should you want to participate....

The Joint Commission is looking for Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) to pilot test the draft CAH performance measures. Participating hospitals will be asked to implement data collection and reporting...

The Joint Commission has published its latest brochure in its ongoing Speak Up ™ campaign, entitled “Speak Up: What you need to know about your serious illness and palliative care.&rdquo...