Will you create TJC’s next Emergency Preparedness poster?

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
December 17, 2019
Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Selected posters will be exhibited at the Emergency Management Standards Base Camp on April 21, and at the...Read More »

Fire safety may trump ligature risk, but surveyors likely will want both

Inside Accreditation & Quality
December 16, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

The Joint Commission’s (TJC) newest engineering director, Herman A. McKenzie, MBA, CHSP, told hospital leadership that life...Read More »

TJC to focus on how hospitals prevent obstetric hemorrhage, treat severe hypertension

Inside Accreditation & Quality
December 16, 2019
Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Obstetric hemorrhage and severe hypertension are the two focus areas of the requirements that will come online in July 2020Read More »

Revisiting The Joint Commission’s drug diversion advice, resources amid growing opioid epidemic

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
December 16, 2019
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Quality & Errors

10% of healthcare workers in the U.S. are abusing drugs of some sort.Read More »

Suicide prevention NPSG now applies to Critical Access Hospitals

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
December 10, 2019
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

 The accreditor noted concerns about the very high rate of suicides in rural communities that critical access hospitals serve.Read More »

Expect the next decade to focus on coping with new technology and old problems

Inside Accreditation & Quality
December 10, 2019
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Leadership & Finance, Fire & Life Safety, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Behavioral & Mental Health, Workplace safety

Healthcare compliance changed quite a bit in the last decade. For one thing, fire safety moved into the current millennium with the adoption of...Read More »

Review home health discharge planning changes to assess hospital impact

Inside Accreditation & Quality
December 10, 2019
Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

After four years, a proposed rule, and a deadline extension, CMS has finalized the conditions home health agencies must meet through the discharge...Read More »

Review HFAP’s handy summary of recent CoP updates

Inside Accreditation & Quality
December 3, 2019
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

HFAP provided a handy list of what CoPs were to change, and stated that “all regulations are effective November 29, 2019 with the exceptions of...Read More »

Look for TJC, others to update standards against newly revised CoPs

Inside Accreditation & Quality
December 3, 2019
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Watch for information on possible changes to medical record, nursing, and patients’ rights standards from The Joint Commission (TJC), HFAP, and...Read More »

Drug Diversion by Healthcare Personnel

December 2, 2019
Webinars
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures

This webinar presented by expert speaker Kimberly New, BSN, JD, will explore current trends in drug diversion by healthcare personnel and will address how facilities can develop a straightforward approach to diversion prevention, detection, and response.

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