Tag: "Joint Commission"

Helping Your Board Ensure Patient Safety

Helping Your Board Ensure Patient Safety

Your quality team has studied the new standard changes, updated policies, and conducted tracers to monitor compliance. What else can you do as an executive to help …

Surviving the 2009 Accreditation for CMS and Joint Commission

Surviving the 2009 Accreditation for CMS and Joint Commission

The “Practical Advice for Surviving the Joint Commission and Survey Process” advanced educational seminar explains how to prepare for the survey process, focusing on the issues that hold the greatest risk for hospitals in 2009. It provides practical solutions for taking immediate action towards the best possible survey outcomes

Curbing Identity Theft at Hospitals

Curbing Identity Theft at Hospitals

Recent U.S. Federal Trade Commission red flag rules require hospitals and other healthcare providers to comply and become active participants in curbing identity theft.

Who Wants to be seen as a Culturally Insensitive Hospital?

Who Wants to be seen as a Culturally Insensitive Hospital?

Culturally competent care will lead to a better patient experience. The National Quality Forum recently issued a framework for culturally competent care that it believes could serve as a model for accreditation standards.