Hospital Peer Review – May 1, 2004
May 1, 2004
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Impress Joint Commission and public with dramatic core measure results
Theres no denying that paying close attention to performance measures can improve patient safety at your organization, but heres another powerful motivator: Your core measure data will have a wider audience this summer when the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations begins making its Quality Reports publicly available. -
Try these foolproof tips to be ready for JCAHO
If you still are doing last-minute ramp-up preparation for Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations surveys, youre going to have big problems with the Shared Visions New Pathways process, warns Lynne Adams, CPHQ, director of quality at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. -
Project aids rural hospitals in drug error reporting
If your hospital is a large urban facility, you may have large numbers of staff with individual departments responsible for performance improvement, patient safety, and data collection and abstracting. Unfortunately, many quality managers at smaller facilities are not so lucky. -
Report, new measures link nursing care to safety
Do nurses at your facility complain they are overworked and understaffed? If so, you may have a bigger problem than retention on your hands compelling new evidence suggests poor nursing conditions put patients in danger. -
Performance Measures
Here are the 15 Nursing-Sensitive Performance Measures endorsed by the Washington, DC-based National Quality Forum. -
Make these changes to improve safety
Would you like to improve retention and satisfaction of nursing staff and make patients safer at the same time? The two goals are intrinsically linked, according to Diana Berkland, MS, RN, vice president of clinical administrative services and chief nurse executive at Sioux Valley Hospital USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, SD. -
The Quality Cost Connection: Use Baldrige criteria to advance excellence
One of the best ways to gain hospitalwide commitment to performance excellence is through participation in a self-assessment using the criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality award.