National Nurses Week – Culture of Safety, It Starts with YOU - begins each year on May 6 and ends on May 12, Florence Nightingale's birthday. In 1998, May 8 was...
It has been almost 34 years since I graduated from nursing school. So many things have changed over the time. The number of hospitals and hospital beds grew and now...
The Joint Commission (TJC) has published a list of 131 requirements from its Hospital program that have been deleted effective July 1, 2016. According to TJC, these requirements are being...
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), in collaboration with Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC), recently released an Alert to provide information on...
The CMS Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter offers guidance to health care providers about common billing errors. This newsletter is designed to provide education on how to avoid common billing errors...
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a National Pain Strategy, outlining the federal government’s first coordinated...
Every year, the World Health Organization selects a priority area of global public health concern as the theme for World Health Day. The theme for World Health Day 2016 is...
MCN Healthcare can help!  MCN's Policy Library includes more than 18,000 customizable policies and procedures authored by MCN clinical staff. Every MCN Policy Library document is up-to-date and instantly downloadable. The...
The HHS Office for Civil Rights has announced the commencement of the next phase of audits of covered entities and their business associates to determine compliance with the HIPAA Privacy,...
Patient Safety Awareness Week was last week. Did you receive StayAlert! notices in your inbox? If not this is what you missed!
Monday March 14 - Patient Safety Hot Topic –...