Hospital Peer Review – May 1, 2005
May 1, 2005
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Unannounced surveys: What you’ll need to do within minutes of JCAHO’s arrival
Its the moment of truth: After months of preparation, inservices, and mock patient tracers, you finally get the phone call: Surveyors from the Joint Commission have arrived at your hospital. -
Don’t ignore the costs for quality resources
When you submit quality reports to hospital administrators, do you gloss over cost and financial issues or address them head-on? This could be a powerful tool to obtain additional resources for data analysis activities or corrective actions, says Judy Homa-Lowry, RN, MS, CPHQ, president of Homa-Lowry Healthcare Consulting based in Metamora, MI. -
Accreditation Field Report: Communication among caregivers is a key focus
What were you told about this patient by the previous caregiver during reports? What are you doing for this patient? What are you going to tell the next caregiver about this patient? -
The Quality - CO$T Connection: Don’t be fooled by the illusion of patient safety
As a part of their overall patient safety program, many health care organizations require that managers submit corrective action reports for every significant incident in their department. -
Are you breaking patient privacy regs with e-mails?
Have you ever included a patients personal information in statistical studies on specific diagnoses for JCAHO core measures and shared this with staff via e-mail? Do you ever e-mail colleagues about a patients outcome if that patient was seen at another institution?