Hospital Peer Review – April 1, 2010
April 1, 2010
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Build a process to manage all of your contracted services
Managing contracted services is required by both The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and if not managed well can be a huge risk to your organization. -
Are you evaluating your contracted services?
So how do you evaluate the quality of your contracted services? Frank Ruelas, MBA, principal of www.hipaabootcamp.com and director of compliance and risk management at Maryvale Hospital in Phoenix, has some tips. -
Readmission rates, LOS decrease with BOOST
He believes it's the right thing to do for the patient and the right thing to do for the hospital. And with staff happier, patients happier, and length of stay and readmission rates decreasing, it seems as if it's working. -
Where research and reality collide
Checklists have become a ubiquitous term for the patient safety movement, which most recognize as being born with the Institute of Medicine's 1999 report "To Err is Human." -
Applying human factors engineering to QI
What do high-reliability organizations, lean techniques, and Six Sigma have in common? First, they're all part of the discussion of modern quality improvement and change management in health care. -
Accreditation Field Report: Midland Memorial happy with DNV shift
Frustrated with The Joint Commission, Midland Memorial Hospital (TX) made the shift to DNV this year, says accreditation specialist Lisa Williams, PT, MS, HACP.