Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

Q&A: Anesthesia services oversight

April 2, 2013
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Q: What are the supervision requirements for anesthesia services?

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 4

Drift's role in preventing ­infections

April 1, 2013
Infection Control

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Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 4

Briefings on the Joint Commission, April 2013

April 1, 2013
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 14, Issue 4

Alarm safety is focus of new proposed Joint Commission NPSG

April 1, 2013

The Joint Commission has proposed a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) for 2014 related to the management of alarms. Field review ended February 26.

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 4

Proposed changes to CMS' hospital CoPs coming down the pike

April 1, 2013
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 14, Issue 4

The PSMJ Staff Trainer

April 1, 2013
Patient Safety

Test staff members' knowledge of The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals with the following questions.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 14, Issue 4

NICU makes improvements to design, care

April 1, 2013
Patient Safety

In 2011, the 311-bed Lucile Packard Children's ­Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., was beginning to use its ­Packard Quality Management System as a methodology for improvement, empowering employees to identify and solve routine work problems, and design and implement better...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 14, Issue 4

Pediatric hospital uses quick huddles to ID adverse drug events and prevent future errors Automated follow-up key to success

April 1, 2013
Quality & Errors

Healthcare has come a long way in identifying safety issues-even the possibility of safety issues-but as many quality directors and frontline staff know, identifying is not solving.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 14, Issue 4

MGH uses simulation to assess suicide ­screening skills

April 1, 2013
Patient Safety

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) recently developed a protocol to use a Web-based standardized clinical encounter to evaluate providers' ability to ­assess the risk of suicide.

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 4

Fire incident highlights need for hand sanitizer safety

April 1, 2013
Policies and Procedures

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