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To share or not to share? Thats the question for many organizations currently in the thick of the decision-making process for whether to send in the results of their periodic performance review (PPR) to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Do you shudder to think of the workload involved in completing
the periodic performance review (PPR) now required by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations? Are you finding yourself solely responsible for all the data collection this entails? Is your goal to do the minimum required to pass muster with surveyors?
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Here are the 15 Nursing-Sensitive Performance Measures endorsed by the Washington, DC-based National Quality Forum.
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Do nurses at your facility complain they are overworked and understaffed? If so, you may have a bigger problem than retention on your hands compelling new evidence suggests poor nursing conditions put patients in danger.
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If you still are doing last-minute ramp-up preparation for Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations surveys, youre going to have big problems with the Shared Visions New Pathways process, warns Lynne Adams, CPHQ, director of quality at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD.
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Theres no denying that paying close attention to performance measures can improve patient safety at your organization, but heres another powerful motivator: Your core measure data will have a wider audience this summer when the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations begins making its Quality Reports publicly available.
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The quality professionals role continues to evolve, with many professionals stepping into leadership and business roles, according to the latest Hospital Peer Review salary survey.
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A high priority has been placed on improving incident reporting as the first step in reducing unintended patient injuries. The incident reporting system in many health care organizations is evolving into one that focuses on near misses, provides incentives for voluntary reporting, ensures confidentiality (not necessarily anonymity), and emphasizes data collection, analysis, and improvement.
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A recent four-day Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) survey at United Regional Health Care System in Wichita Falls, TX, was very patient-focused, with direct caregivers much more involved, reports Darlene Adams, RN, MSN, the organizations patient care safety/quality management officer.
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Are you tired of dealing with multiple data definitions and similar but differing performance measures? Youve probably wished many times that the quality measures from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) were identical.
