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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations says that more than half of the sentinel events involving death or permanent injury over a seven-year period beginning in 1995 occurred in the ED, and treatment delays were identified as a significant factor.
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According to the Joint Commission, the new survey process will involve more of a focus on safety and quality patient care, and less frantic ramping up before surveys.
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Here is a timeline for how the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will implement its new survey process.
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Even with appropriate, timely documentation, its all too common for EDs to receive an inaccurate, lower payment from the payer. A health care reimbursement specialist offers two solutions.
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Ambulances going out to patients homes are not subject to EMTALA unless owned by the hospital.
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This study reports that almost 50% of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) present to the emergency department without a chief complaint of chest pain.
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Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn, MI, is using the slogan were an emergency room, not a waiting room and backing up its claim with an offer of free theater tickets to patients who wait more than 30 minutes.
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While proposed changes to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) would give hospitals more leeway in certain areas, its important to remember that those changes arent yet in effect, cautions Stephen Frew, JD, a longtime specialist in EMTALA compliance.
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The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recently approved a plan that calls for smallpox immunization of 510,000 health care workers.
