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The pain of wrong site surgery
When the president of the Joint Commission, the Chicago-based group that accredits the nation's hospitals, unveiled...
Web Exclusive: Scanning Medication Reduces Errors, Hospital Says
Baystate Medical Center's adoption of a bar code scanning process has helped decrease medication error rates by...
TJC Standards Mum On LGBT Policies
Granting or denying clinical privileges on the basis of gender, race, creed, or national origin violates The Joint...
Joint Commission International Announces Change in Leadership
The Joint Commission has announced that its long-time president and chief executive of Joint Commission Resources and...
Joint Commission Pushes Back Telemedicine Requirements Until March 2011
The Joint Commission's plan to implement CMS telemedicine standards for hospitals (both acute and critical access) has...
Joint Commission Announces Plans to Expand Heart Failure Certification Program
The Joint Commission has announced it has plans to expand its Heart Failure Advanced Certification Program. The...
Hospital Creates Electronic Medication List to Achieve Consistency, Help Patients
In 2007, The Joint Commission made an addition to Goal #8 regarding medication reconciliation: Along with compiling a...
Top Joint Commission Citations: Corridor Clutter, Door Wedges
The Joint Commission's focus on Life Safety Code® compliance doesn't look to be subsiding, as evidenced by fire...
Web Exclusive: Critical Test Result Management: Time for Solutions
Due to communication errors within American hospitals, many patients suffer consequences from delayed communication of...
Web Exclusive: An Infection Control Playbook
Guidelines for reducing healthcare-associated infections are not hard to find—it's the adherence part of the...

Audio Conference: Medication Reconciliation: Solutions to meet Joint Commission’s 2011 Changes
In December, 2010, The Joint Commission completed its analysis of this consistently problematic standard and announced...
Hospital Emergency Exercises:
Attached is the HTML for the 4.11.11 SAF audio conference on-demand page. It seems like when you were updating it, you...
Audio Conference: Suicide Risk
With limited resources it’s a challenge for hospitals to perform thorough suicide risk assessments. Join our expert...
Audio Conference: Medication Management:
All hospitals must comply with medication management requirements to provide quality care and avoid survey citations...
Audio Conference: Joint Commission Disease-Specific Care Certification
To find out how your facility can achieve this prestigious status, join HCPro for this live 90-minute audio conference...
Book: Infection Control During Construction Manual, Third Edition
This updated resource by expert Wayne Hansen, PE, REA, CEM, along with contributions from 10 other experts, helps you...
Audio Conference: CMS Telemedicine Rule
The new credentialing and privileging requirements for physicians and practitioners who provide telemedicine...
Book: j-mail, 2012 Edition: Tools for Ongoing Joint Commission Survey Prep
The tenth edition of our annual Joint Commission training tool has been improved to enable thorough training and survey...
Audio Conference: Medical Interpreter Programs: Meet the Needs of Your Patient Population
Meet the language needs of your community and comply with new Joint Commission patient-centered communication...
Book: Assessing the Risk: Suicidal Behavior in the Hospital Environment of Care
Suicide of a care recipient while in a staffed, round-the-clock care setting or within 72 hours of discharge has...