With CMS and The Joint Commission increasingly pushing to make sure facilities are following requirements and standards regarding mental health, now is a good time to assess your own facility's mental health resources. But what happens when you're in a facility without a behavioral health...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 6
This is the second installment of a three-part series where the authors introduce the idea of workforce analytics and its impacts to hospital organizations.
The Joint Commission has turned its attention?or rather, turned its attention back to?the ever-evolving world of healthcare information technology in its latest Sentinel Event Alert (SEA #54), released at the end of March. The Joint Commission previously addressed information technology in...
Early reports of first-quarter survey experiences are starting to trickle in, and, according to some sources and organizations already surveyed by The Joint Commission this year, things are a little different.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 6
Early reports of first-quarter survey experiences are starting to trickle in, and, according to some sources and organizations already surveyed by The Joint Commission this year, things are a little different.