Do you want to learn how to effectively respond to CMS letters, reports, and adverse actions by knowing the rules and anticipating important milestones in the process? Or how to meet state and federal...

The AHAP blog brings you more of the accreditation news you need, updated on a regular basis. The free online forum provides readers with a chance to learn about new accreditation regulations. The blo...

The Joint Commission’s plan to implement CMS telemedicine standards for hospitals, both acute and critical access, has been pushed back until March 2011, according to an official announcement fr...

True or false: More people are receiving organ/tissue transplants each year, and those individuals who receive transplanted organs/tissues are living much longer....

Attention AHAP Members: Make sure to keep an eye out on the home page and the AHAP blog over the next week or so as the next working group call topic and date will be announced....

When Heather Forbes, RN, BSN, CEN, CSHA, HACP, accreditation and regulatory coordinator at Southern Maine Medical Center (SMMC) in Biddeford, first took over the role of survey coordinator, she looked...

The Joint Commission will be releasing new standards for hospitals surrounding language, culture, and communication in the January 2011 hospital manual....

In 2007, The Joint Commission issued the Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) standard as a means to evaluate a privilege-specific competence of a practitioner who does not have documented ...

For years, the Medical Staff standard MS.01.01.01 has been a battleground for hospitals—an ongoing issue of bylaws versus rules and regulations and the right way for organized medical staffs, me...

Inside: Start from the beginning Focused Professional Practice Evaluation: Keep it simple Joint Commission announces deletion of MOS changes 2010 hospital MOS changes effective April 26 and July 1 (pd...