quality
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Strategy
Improving Health LiteracyThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recommends that healthcare professionals use health literacy universal precautions with all patients.
Clinical Care
Full Speed Ahead: CMS Resumes Most SurveysThe newest memo on surveys ? QSO-21-16-Hospitals, "Resuming Hospital Survey Activities Following 30-day Restrictions"? was posted online March 26 but...
Clinical Care
Review Patient Falls, Especially Those Involving Infants, as Surveys ResumeThe commission has been pushing hospitals to focus on maternal health and infant safety for years, and most recently implemented...
Clinical Care
Advance Care Planning: A Quality and Patient Safety MustAdvance care planning is an underrecognized issue, but its status has been elevated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Innovation
Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship: AAAHC Publishes New ToolkitThe toolkit offers a core elements checklist for assessing policies and procedures, treatment recommendations in primary care taken from the...
Clinical Care
Consider Including APPs on Medical Staff CommitteesIf APPs assume larger roles at your facility, committees will likely be improved?not hindered?by their perspective.
Strategy
10 Steps to Becoming a High-reliability Hospital from Truman Medical CenterThe HRH model was developed by the Veterans Health Administration's National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) and its process is...
Clinical Care
TJC to Begin Unannounced Survey Visits AgainTJC says it is also working with CMS to prioritize hospitals and other healthcare organizations that have accreditation dates past...
Clinical Care
Strengthen Information Gathering from ReferencesIt's important to strengthen your process for obtaining the most useful and accurate information you can from references.
Clinical Care
Healthgrades Names 2021 'America's Best Hospitals'Healthgrades analyzed the performance of nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide across 32 conditions and procedures.
Technology
EHRs Still Have a Ways to Go to Automatically Capture All Quality Data, Quality Experts SayVendors lack funds for dedicated staff to build quality measures into their software, NQF vice president says.
Clinical Care
CRC Recognizes Jennifer Williams, CPCSThe CRC team reached out to Williams so that we could get to know her better and hear about her...