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Despite existing national recommendations to the contrary, more than a third of hospitals reporting performance measurement data to The Joint Commission are not offering pneumococcal vaccine to their pneumonia patients, a recent report reveals.
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The Joint Commission has created some Q&A clarification of its standards regarding tissue handling and transplantation in light of some highly publicized incidents of inappropriate practices.
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A hospital CEO received three occurrence reports from a charge nurse on labor and delivery about several problems involving the same physician. Nurses reported feeling intimidated, hurried, and made to feel incompetent due to being berated, sometimes in front of the patient.
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Currently, 382 hospitals have submitted data to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture's comparative database. This new database serves as a central repository for data so hospitals can compare their safety culture survey results, and includes data from all participating hospitals, with 108,621 individual respondents.
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What can possibly be more frustrating than walking into a hospital and being treated poorly?
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At Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, a 224-bed acute care hospital in Orange County, CA, surveyors from The Joint Commission were so impressed with the handoff communication process for perioperative services, they asked for a sample of the hospital's tool.
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Rude remarks, intimidated staff, unresolved conflicts between leaders, and abusive behavior your organization will need to have effective processes in place to address all of these scenarios.
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An Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) often is referred to as a "suite" because it is an integrated software system, with multiple applications designed to work in concert with each other. Given that design, an ED manager might well be inclined to purchase and implement such a suite in one fell swoop.
