From advanced practice professionals to telemedicine providers, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment Challenges will walk you through every step of collecting adequate performance data to assess practitioner competence. This book addresses many of the common...
Thirty-three percent of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting accountability measure data for 2012 are Top Performer hospitals, delivering evidence-based care processes in the right way and at the right time, according to The Joint Commission’s latest Annual Report on Quality and...
With the temporary federal budget deal ending the 16-day government shutdown, state and federal officials have some catching up to do to make up for time lost. At the state level, some health departments will be dealing with a backlog of federal inspections postponed during the shutdown. Some...
The Leapfrog Group’s fourth safety report card for general acute care hospitals, released Wednesday, shows little overall improvement in how well providers are preventing patient harm. A total of 2,539 hospitals were graded on 15 structural measures, such as whether the hospital has a full-time...
More than $8 million in grants will support research to aid long-term recovery in areas hard hit by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced this week. Research will focus on physical and behavioral health aspects of recovery including community...
Sixty wrong-patient/wrong-site/wrong-procedure sentinel events were reported during the first half of 2013, according to the October edition of The Joint Commission Perspectives. Other sentinel events near the top of the list were unintended retention of a foreign object and delay in...
