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Clinical Care
Network With Your Peers at Our Upcoming Virtual and In-Person Events!Join us this April and September for two events where we'll provide engaging education, training, and opportunities to network with...
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.
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...
Nursing
Acclaimed Clinical Leader Offers 4 Steps to Quality Improvement CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence.
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
What You Need to Know About TJC's 2021 Survey Activity GuideMany of the updates, such as the elimination of the Environment of Care session, are not unexpected, while other items...
Clinical Care
Integrating Communication for Better Patient Care—and Better Provider ExperiencesThe electronic medical record environment has presented communication hurdles.
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.
Strategy
More and More Hospital Surveys May be Onsite, Depending on ConditionsHowever, in many cases hospitals still may be subject to their regular onsite, triennial reaccreditation survey. And they will be...
Revenue Cycle
Medicare Cuts Payment to 774 Hospitals Over Patient ComplicationsOn any given day, one in every 31 hospital patients has an infection that was contracted during their stay, according...
Strategy
CMS Updates Accrediting Organizations on When to Pause SurveysCMS told its own state survey agencies in January it was putting a general hold on hospital surveys, except for...
Clinical Care
Medical Mayhem Room: Enhancing Situational Awareness of Patient Safety Risks in the Hospital SettingHospitals are a critical part of our healthcare system and a place where very ill people can get excellent, and...