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A walking tour of each patient care area that includes clinical alarms could reveal both problems and solutions you might not otherwise consider, says Britton Berek, CCE, MBA, associate director of the standards interpretation group for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Question: Our hospital routinely surveys patients and family members to gauge satisfaction with our services, but so far we havent really used those results in our accreditation efforts.
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A quality improvement project at a Michigan long-term care facility resulted in a decrease in the prevalence of chronic pain among its residents from 33% in March 2000 to 18% currently.
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Whether your organization is seeking to reduce process inefficiencies or eliminate the chance of unintended patient harm, action taking is a critical step in the improvement cycle. The cycle involves devising a new or improved process, implementing changes, monitoring the effects of changes, making further adjustments where necessary, and continuing to monitor.
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Daily bed alerts, emergency department (ED) case management, and an express admit unit for direct admits from physician offices are among the initiatives that help streamline operations at Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network in Allentown, PA.
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A discovery that came out of a congestive heart failure (CHF) project led to a Medication Mission that is improving quality of life and reducing readmission rates for patients at St. Joseph Health Center in Warren, OH.
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Rising patient infection rates. Adverse patient outcomes. Increased risk to staff. If these arent compelling enough reasons to comply with recent hand hygiene guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), consider this: The only new 2004 National Patient Safety Goal from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations addresses this area specifically.
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Would you like to be responsible for a million-dollar increase in your hospitals bottom line?
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Are you compiling and reporting performance measurement date from two core measures, as required by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations? As of January 2004, youll need to make that three measures.
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After one patient death in 2009, an error with an adult patient this year, followed by two patient deaths, Seattle Children's Hospital has been in a lot of discussions with not only the state's department of health and The Joint Commission, but the media and its staff as well.
